The Effect of Provider Diversity on Racial Health Disparities: Evidence from the Military [0.03%]
关于医疗从业人员构成的种族多样性对医疗保健领域内种族差异的影响：来自军队的研究证据
Michael Frakes,Jonathan Gruber
Michael Frakes
We assess the relationship between the racial diversity of medical providers and racial health disparities in the use of preventive care and in patient outcomes. We use unique data from the Military Health System, where we observe providers...
Is the Social Safety Net a Long-Term Investment? Large-Scale Evidence From the Food Stamps Program [0.03%]
社会安全网是长期投资吗？来自食品券计划的大规模证据
Martha J Bailey,Hilary Hoynes,Maya Rossin-Slater et al.
Martha J Bailey et al.
We use novel, large-scale data on 17.5 million Americans to study how a policy-driven increase in economic resources affects children's long-term outcomes. Using the 2000 Census and 2001-13 American Community Survey linked to the Social Sec...
Kirill Borusyak,Peter Hull,Xavier Jaravel
Kirill Borusyak
Many studies use shift-share (or "Bartik") instruments, which average a set of shocks with exposure share weights. We provide a new econometric framework for shift-share instrumental variable (SSIV) regressions in which identification follo...
Behaviour within a Clinical Trial and Implications for Mammography Guidelines [0.03%]
临床试验中的行为及其对乳腺X线摄影指南的含义
Amanda E Kowalski
Amanda E Kowalski
Mammography guidelines have weakened in response to evidence that mammograms diagnose breast cancers that would never eventually cause symptoms, a phenomenon called "overdiagnosis." Given concerns about overdiagnosis, instead of recommendin...
Adverse Selection in the Marriage Market: HIV Testing and Marriage in Rural Malawi [0.03%]
马拉维农村艾滋病检测与婚姻匹配中的逆向选择问题
Manuela Angelucci,Daniel Bennett
Manuela Angelucci
Asymmetric information in the marriage market may cause adverse selection and delay marriage if partner quality is revealed over time. Sexual safety is an important but hidden partner attribute, especially in areas where HIV is endemic. A m...
Long-Term Impacts of Childhood Medicaid Expansions on Outcomes in Adulthood [0.03%]
童年时期扩大医疗补助计划对成年后果的长期影响
David W Brown,Amanda E Kowalski,Ithai Z Lurie
David W Brown
We use administrative data from the IRS to examine long-term impacts of childhood Medicaid eligibility expansions on outcomes in adulthood at each age from 19-28. Greater Medicaid eligibility increases college enrollment and decreases ferti...
Public R&D Investments and Private-sector Patenting: Evidence from NIH Funding Rules [0.03%]
公共研发投资与私人专利：来自美国国立卫生研究院资金规定之证据
Pierre Azoulay,Danielle Li,Joshua S Graff Zivin et al.
Pierre Azoulay et al.
We quantify the impact of scientific grant funding at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on patenting by pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms. Our paper makes two contributions. First, we use newly constructed bibliometric data to de...
Paola Bordon,Chao Fu
Paola Bordon
Many countries use college-major-specific admissions policies that require a student to choose a college-major pair jointly. Given the potential of student-major mismatches, we explore the equilibrium effects of postponing student choice of...
Farther on down the road: transport costs, trade and urban growth in sub-Saharan Africa [0.03%]
非洲撒哈拉以南地区的运输成本、贸易与城市增长问题研究
Adam Storeygard
Adam Storeygard
This paper investigates the role of inter-city transport costs in determining the income of sub-Saharan African cities. In particular, focusing on fifteen countries whose largest city is a port, I find that an oil price increase of the magn...
Fernando E Alvarez,Francesco Lippi,Luigi Paciello
Fernando E Alvarez
We study models where prices respond slowly to shocks because firms are rationally inattentive. Producers must pay a cost to observe the determinants of the current profit maximizing price, and hence observe them infrequently. To generate l...