Ethnic Inequality [0.03%]
民族不平等
Alberto Alesina,Stelios Michalopoulos,Elias Papaioannou
Alberto Alesina
This study explores the consequences and origins of between-ethnicity economic inequality across countries. First, combining satellite images of nighttime luminosity with the historical homelands of ethnolinguistic groups we construct measu...
The Generalized Roy Model and the Cost-Benefit Analysis of Social Programs [0.03%]
广义Roy模型与社会项目的成本效益分析
Philipp Eisenhauer,James J Heckman,Edward Vytlacil
Philipp Eisenhauer
The literature on treatment effects focuses on gross benefits from program participation. We extend this literature by developing conditions under which it is possible to identify parameters measuring the cost and net surplus from program p...
A Nation of Immigrants: Assimilation and Economic Outcomes in the Age of Mass Migration [0.03%]
《移民铸就国家：大规模移民时代的 assimilation 和经济结果》
Ran Abramitzky,Leah Platt Boustan,Katherine Eriksson
Ran Abramitzky
During the Age of Mass Migration (1850-1913), the United States maintained an open border, absorbing 30 million European immigrants. Prior cross-sectional work finds that immigrants initially held lower-paid occupations than natives but con...
Measuring Returns to Hospital Care: Evidence from Ambulance Referral Patterns [0.03%]
基于救护车转诊模式测量医院治疗的收益：来自中国的证据
Joseph Doyle,John Graves,Jonathan Gruber et al.
Joseph Doyle et al.
Medicare spending exceeds 4% of GDP in the US each year, and there are concerns that moral hazard problems have led to overspending. This paper considers whether hospitals that treat patients more aggressively and receive higher payments fr...
Valuing Diversity [0.03%]
重视多样性
Roland G Fryer Jr,Glenn C Loury
Roland G Fryer Jr
This paper explores the economics of diversity-enhancing policies. A model is proposed in which heterogeneous agents, distinguished by skill level and social identity, purchase productive opportunities in a competitive market. We analyze po...
Intellectual property rights and innovation: Evidence from the human genome [0.03%]
知识产权与创新：来自人类基因组的证据
Heidi L Williams
Heidi L Williams
Do intellectual property (IP) rights on existing technologies hinder subsequent innovation? Using newly-collected data on the sequencing of the human genome by the public Human Genome Project and the private firm Celera, this paper estimate...
Cyclicality, Mortality, and the Value of Time: The Case of Coffee Price Fluctuations and Child Survival in Colombia [0.03%]
周期性，死亡率和时间的价值：哥伦比亚咖啡价格波动与儿童生存情况案例分析
Grant Miller,B Piedad Urdinola
Grant Miller
Recent studies demonstrate procyclical mortality in wealthy countries, but there are reasons to expect a countercyclical relationship in developing nations. We investigate how child survival in Colombia responds to fluctuations in world Ara...
Amalia R Miller,Catherine E Tucker
Amalia R Miller
Electronic medical records (EMRs) facilitate fast and accurate access to patient records, which could improve diagnosis and patient monitoring. Using a 12-year county-level panel, we find that a 10 percent increase in births that occur in h...
Anne Case,Christina Paxson
Anne Case
The well-known association between height and earnings is often thought to reflect factors such as self esteem, social dominance, and discrimination. We offer a simpler explanation: height is positively associated with cognitive ability, wh...
PRODUCTIVITY SPILLOVERS IN HEALTHCARE: EVIDENCE FROM THE TREATMENT OF HEART ATTACKS [0.03%]
医疗行业的生产率溢出效应——来自治疗心脏病案例的证据
Amitabh Chandra,Douglas O Staiger
Amitabh Chandra
A large literature in medicine documents variation across areas in the use of surgical treatments that is unrelated to outcomes. Observers of this phenomena have invoked "flat of the curve medicine" to explain these facts, and have advocate...