Mark L Bryan,Almudena Sevilla-Sanz
Mark L Bryan
This paper uses the British Household Panel Survey to present the first estimates of the housework-wage relationship in Britain. Controlling for permanent unobserved heterogeneity, we find that housework has a negative impact on the wages o...
Kate Ivanova
Kate Ivanova
This paper examines how the effectiveness of regulatory framework influences levels of sulphur emissions in a scenario where, to reduce its (emission-) tax payments, a polluting firm may under-report emissions level at the risk of being aud...
ESTIMATING MARGINAL RETURNS TO MEDICAL CARE: EVIDENCE FROM AT-RISK NEWBORNS [0.03%]
关于高风险新生儿的一项医疗效益估计证据研究
Douglas Almond,Joseph J Doyle,Amanda E Kowalski et al.
Douglas Almond et al.
A key policy question is whether the benefits of additional medical expenditures exceed their costs. We propose a new approach for estimating marginal returns to medical spending based on variation in medical inputs generated by diagnostic ...
Gabriel D Carroll,James J Choi,David Laibson et al.
Gabriel D Carroll et al.
Defaults often have a large influence on consumer decisions. We identify an overlooked but practical alternative to defaults: requiring individuals to make an explicit choice for themselves. We study such "active decisions" in the context o...
DOES MEDICARE SAVE LIVES? [0.03%]
医疗保险能救命吗？
David Card,Carlos Dobkin,Nicole Maestas
David Card
Health insurance characteristics shift at age 65 as most people become eligible for Medicare. We measure the impacts of these changes on patients who are admitted to hospitals through emergency departments for conditions with similar admiss...
Fiscal Shenanigans, Targeted Federal Health Care Funds, and Patient Mortality [0.03%]
财政操作、定向联邦医疗资金与病人死亡率的关系研究
Katherine Baicker,Douglas Staiger
Katherine Baicker
We explore the effectiveness of matching grants when lower levels of government can expropriate some of the funds for other uses. Using data on the Medicaid Disproportionate Share program, we identify states that were most able to expropria...
G S Becker,R J Barro
G S Becker