Ambulance Taxis: The Impact of Regulation and Litigation on Health Care Fraud [0.03%]
救护车出租车：监管和诉讼对医疗保健欺诈的影响
Paul Eliason,Riley League,Jetson Leder-Luis et al.
Paul Eliason et al.
We study the effectiveness of pay-and-chase lawsuits and upfront regulations for combating health care fraud. Between 2003 and 2017, Medicare spent $7.7 billion on 37.5 million regularly scheduled ambulance rides for patients traveling to a...
Stefano DellaVigna,Woojin Kim,Elizabeth Linos
Stefano DellaVigna
Governments increasingly use RCTs to test innovations, yet we know little about how they incorporate results into policy-making. We study 30 U.S. cities that ran 73 RCTs with a national Nudge Unit. Cities adopt a nudge treatment into their ...
Misfortune and Mistake: The Financial Conditions and Decision-making Ability of High-Cost Loan Borrowers [0.03%]
误入歧途还是误判前景：高成本借款者的财务状况与判断力分析
Leandro Carvalho,Arna Olafsson,Dan Silverman
Leandro Carvalho
The appropriateness of many high-cost loan regulations depends on whether demand is driven by financial conditions ("misfortunes") or imperfect decisions ("mistakes"). Bank records from Iceland show borrowers have especially low liquidity j...
The Dynamics and Spillovers of Management Interventions: Evidence from the Training Within Industry Program [0.03%]
管理层干预的动力学与溢出效应：来自《产业内培训》计划的证据
Nicola Bianchi,Michela Giorcelli
Nicola Bianchi
This paper examines the long-term and spillover effects of management interventions on firm performance. Under the Training Within Industry (TWI) program, the U.S. government provided management training to firms involved in war production ...
Reevaluating the Long-Term Impact of In Utero Exposure to the 1918 Influenza Pandemic [0.03%]
重新评估1918年流感大流行对子宫内胎儿的长期影响
Brian Beach,Ryan Brown,Joseph Ferrie et al.
Brian Beach et al.
Almond (2006) argues that in utero exposure to the 1918 influenza pandemic reduced the 1919 birth cohort's adult socioeconomic status (SES). We show that this cohort came from lower-SES families, which is incompatible with Almond's cohort-c...
The Lasting Effects of Early-Childhood Education on Promoting the Skills and Social Mobility of Disadvantaged African Americans and Their Children [0.03%]
早期教育对促进非洲美国人的技能和社会流动性及其子女的持久影响
Jorge Luis García,James J Heckman,Victor Ronda
Jorge Luis García
This paper demonstrates the long-term intragenerational and intergenerational benefits of the HighScope Perry Preschool Project, which targeted disadvantaged African-American children. We use newly collected data on the original participant...
Natalie Bau
Natalie Bau
The quality of the match between students and schools affects learning, but little is known about the magnitude of these effects or how they respond to changes in market structure. I develop a quantitative equilibrium model of school compet...
Alexander Cappelen,John List,Anya Samek et al.
Alexander Cappelen et al.
We present results from the first study to examine the causal impact of early childhood education on the social preferences of children. We compare children who, at 3-4 years old, were randomized into either a full-time preschool, a parenti...
Xiang Zhou,Yu Xie
Xiang Zhou
We offer a propensity score perspective to interpret and analyze the marginal treatment effect (MTE). Specifically, we redefine MTE as the expected treatment effect conditional on the propensity score and a latent variable representing unob...
The Value of Medicaid: Interpreting Results from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment [0.03%]
俄勒冈州健康保险实验的结果解读：医疗补助计划的价值分析
Amy Finkelstein,Nathaniel Hendren,Erzo F P Luttmer
Amy Finkelstein
We develop a set of frameworks for welfare analysis of Medicaid and apply them to the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment, a Medicaid expansion for low-income, uninsured adults that occurred via random assignment. Across different approaches...