Predicting and Preventing Gun Violence: An Experimental Evaluation of READI Chicago [0.03%]
预测和预防枪支暴力：“芝加哥就绪方案”的实验评估
Monica P Bhatt,Sara B Heller,Max Kapustin et al.
Monica P Bhatt et al.
Gun violence is the most pressing public safety problem in American cities. We report results from a randomized controlled trial (N=2,456) of a community-researcher partnership called the Rapid Employment and Development Initiative (READI) ...
Robert Collinson,John Eric Humphries,Nicholas Mader et al.
Robert Collinson et al.
More than two million U.S. households have an eviction case filed against them each year. Policy makers at the federal, state, and local levels are increasingly pursuing policies to reduce the number of evictions, citing harm to tenants and...
Abby Alpert,William N Evans,Ethan M J Lieber et al.
Abby Alpert et al.
Overdose deaths involving opioids have increased dramatically since the 1990s, leading to the worst drug overdose epidemic in U.S. history, but there is limited empirical evidence about the initial causes. In this article, we examine the ro...
Katherine Baicker,Sendhil Mullainathan,Joshua Schwartzstein
Katherine Baicker
A fundamental implication of standard moral hazard models is overuse of low-value medical care because copays are lower than costs. In these models, the demand curve alone can be used to make welfare statements, a fact relied on by much emp...
Selection with Variation in Diagnostic Skill: Evidence from Radiologists [0.03%]
基于诊断技能差异的选择：放射科医生的证据
David C Chan,Matthew Gentzkow,Chuan Yu
David C Chan
Physicians, judges, teachers, and agents in many other settings differ systematically in the decisions they make when faced with similar cases. Standard approaches to interpreting and exploiting such differences assume they arise solely fro...
Liran Einav,Amy Finkelstein,Yunan Ji et al.
Liran Einav et al.
Government programs are often offered on an optional basis to market participants. We explore the economics of such voluntary regulation in the context of a Medicare payment reform, in which one medical provider receives a single, predeterm...
Stelios Michalopoulos,Melanie Meng Xue
Stelios Michalopoulos
Folklore is the collection of traditional beliefs, customs, and stories of a community passed through the generations by word of mouth. We introduce to economics a unique catalog of oral traditions spanning approximately 1,000 societies. Af...
Jason Abaluck,Mauricio Caceres Bravo,Peter Hull et al.
Jason Abaluck et al.
Competition in health insurance markets may fail to improve health outcomes if consumers are not able to identify high quality plans. We develop and apply a novel instrumental variables framework to quantify the variation in causal mortalit...
Pedro Bessone,Gautam Rao,Frank Schilbach et al.
Pedro Bessone et al.
The urban poor in developing countries face challenging living environments, which may interfere with good sleep. Using actigraphy to measure sleep objectively, we find that low-income adults in Chennai, India, sleep only 5.5 hours a night ...
Amitabh Chandra,Douglas O Staiger
Amitabh Chandra
In medicine, the reasons for variation in treatment rates across hospitals serving similar patients are not well understood. Some interpret this variation as unwarranted, and push standardization of care as a way of reducing allocative inef...