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Monitoring for Waste : Evidence from Medicare Audits
Shi, Maggie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper examines the tradeoffs of monitoring for wasteful public spending. By penalizing unnecessary spending, monitoring improves the quality of public expenditure and incentivizes firms to invest in compliance technology. I study a large Medicare program that monitored for unnecessary...
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Provider Payment Incentives : Evidence From The U.S. Hospice Industry
Coe, Norma B.; Rosenkranz, David A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Moral hazard and provider-induced demand may contribute to overutilization of scarce health care resources. The U.S. health care system includes several compensatory cost-containment mechanisms, but their effects depend on how patients and providers respond. We investigate hospice programs'...
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Where to Snuff the Puff? Relative Effectiveness of U.S. Smoking Control Policies
Goel, Rajeev K. - 2016
This research examines the relative effectiveness of various smoking control initiatives in lowering U.S. smoking prevalence. The main contribution lies in considering alternate state-level restrictions on retailers as well as smokers. Greater restrictions on smokers lower smoking prevalence,...
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Obstetric Unit Closures and Racial/Ethnic Disparity in Health
Chatterji, Pinka; Ho, Chun-Yu; Wu, Xue - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper examines whether loss of locally available hospital-based obstetric services affects racial/ethnic disparities in intrapartum care access and birth outcomes in rural areas of the US. To conduct causal inference, we combine difference-in-difference and propensity score matching methods...
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Girls, boys, and high achievers
Cools, Angela; Fernández, Raquel; Patacchini, Eleonora - 2019
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Effects of Prenatal Care on Birth Outcomes : Reconciling a Messy Literature
Corman, Hope - 2018
Research on the effects of prenatal care on birth outcomes has produced a patchwork of findings that are not easily summarized. Studies have used varying definitions of prenatal care, leading to estimates that are difficult to compare. The identification of causal effects is particularly...
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Boy-girl differences in parental time investments : evidence from three countries
Baker, Michael; Milligan, Kevin - In: Journal of human capital : JHC 10 (2016) 4, pp. 399-441
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Girls, boys, and high achievers
Cools, Angela; Fernández, Raquel; Patacchini, Eleonora - 2019
within a school. We find that greater exposure to "high-achieving" boys, as proxied by their parents' education, decreases … the likelihood that girls go on to complete a bachelor's degree, substituting the latter with junior college degrees. It … aspirations and to more risky behavior (including having a child before age 18). The girls most strongly affected are those in the …
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Boy-girl differences in parental time investments : evidence from three countries
Baker, Michael; Milligan, Kevin - 2013
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Headstrong Girls and Dependent Boys : Gender Differences in the Labor Market Returns to Child Behavior
Kaestner, Robert; Malamud, Ofer - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The authors use data from the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (C-NLSY79) to examine gender differences in the associations between child behavioral problems and early adult earnings. They find large and significant earnings penalties for women who exhibited more headstrong...
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