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The Linkages Between Productivity and Social Progress: An Introduction and Overview
Banting, Keith; Sharpe, Andrew; St-Hilaire, France - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …
Productivity research is Canada has traditionally focused on narrow economic issues. In our view, it has given inadequate attention to the broader ramifications of productivity, both in terms of shedding light on the importance of productivity for the advancement of various aspects of social...
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Improving regulatory effectiveness through better targeting : evidence from OSHA
Johnson, Matthew S.; Levine, David I.; Toffel, Michael W. - 2019
We study how a regulator can best target inspections. Our case study is a US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) program that randomly allocated some inspections. On average, each inspection averted 2.4 serious injuries (9%) over the next five years. We use new machine learning...
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US Adults’ Preferences for Allocating 500 Million Free COVID-19 Tests
Schmidt, Harald; Golos, Aleksandra; Sadecki, Emily; … - 2022
allocation demonstrated inequitable outcomes. On both equity and public health grounds, it is important that more disadvantaged … the 3 allocation options, and that 76% of respondents randomized to the equity-promoting frame (and majorities of both … geographic disadvantage indices increases in order to advance equity in test allocation, given relationships between household …
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Reserve System Design for Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources in a Pandemic : Some Perspectives from the Field
Pathak, Parag A.; Persad, Govind; Sönmez, Tayfun; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought renewed attention to rationing guidelines for scarce medical resources. This paper describes the benefits of using a reserve system over a priority system in operationalizing compromises between certain ethical goals. In the last two years, more than a dozen...
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Combining revenue and equity in capacity allocation of imaging facilities
Zhou, Liping; Geng, Na; Wang, Xiuxian - In: European journal of operational research : EJOR 256 (2017) 2, pp. 619-628
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Eliminating transplant waiting time inequities : with an application to kidney allocation in the USA
Van De Klundert, Joris; Hagen, Liana van der; Markus, Aniek - In: European journal of operational research : EJOR 297 (2022) 3, pp. 977-985
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Motorcycle fatalities among out-of-state riders and the role of universal helmet laws
French, Michael T.; Gumus, Gulcin; Homer, Jenny F. - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 10, pp. 1855-1863
Several studies have demonstrated that universal helmet laws (UHLs) and other motor vehicle policies are effective in reducing fatal and non-fatal motorcycle injuries. Although state policies can improve traffic safety overall, very little is known about how they affect different segments of...
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Elusive Facts About Gun Violence: Where Good Surveys Go Bad
Cook, Philip J.; Ludwig, Jens - Small Arms Data Observatory - 2014
The evidence base for the study of guns and violence begins with data on such fundamental issues as the number and distribution of guns, the number of people shot each year in criminal assaults, and the frequency of gun use in self-defense. It seems that these simple descriptive statistics...
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The pros and cons of sick pay schemes: Testing for contagious presenteeism and shirking behavior
Pichler, Stefan; Ziebarth, Nicolas - 2015
This paper proposes a test for the existence and degree of contagious presenteeism and negative externalities in sickness insurance schemes. First, we theoretically decompose moral hazard into shirking and contagious presenteeism behavior and derive testable conditions. Then, we implement the...
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Labor Market Effects of US Sick Pay Mandates
Pichler, Stefan; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2016
This paper exploits temporal and spatial variation in the implementation of US sick pay mandates to assess their labor market consequences. We use the Synthetic Control Group Method (SCGM) and the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) to estimate the causal effect of mandated sick...
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