Evaluating Measures of Hospital Quality:Evidence from Ambulance Referral Patterns [0.03%]
利用救护车就诊模式评估医院质量的方法
Joseph Doyle,John Graves,Jonathan Gruber
Joseph Doyle
Hospital quality measures are crucial to a key idea behind health care payment reforms: "paying for quality" instead of quantity. Nevertheless, such measures face major criticisms largely over the potential failure of risk adjustment to ove...
Who Marries Differently Aged Spouses? Ability, Education, Occupation, Earnings, and Appearance [0.03%]
哪些人会与年龄差异大的配偶结婚？能力、教育、职业、收入和外貌的影响
Hani Mansour,Terra McKinnish
Hani Mansour
In direct contrast to conventional wisdom and most economic models of marital age gaps, we present robust evidence that men and women who are married to differently-aged spouses are negatively selected. Empirical results show lower cognitiv...
Laura R Wherry,Sarah Miller,Robert Kaestner et al.
Laura R Wherry et al.
Exploiting a discontinuity in childhood Medicaid eligibility based on date of birth, we find that more years of childhood eligibility are associated with fewer hospitalizations in adulthood. For blacks, we find a 7-15% decrease in hospitali...
Daniel J Benjamin,James J Choi,Geoffrey Fisher
Daniel J Benjamin
We find using laboratory experiments that primes that make religion salient cause subjects to identify more with their religion and affect their economic choices. The effect on choices varies by religion. For example, priming causes Protest...
John Karl Scholz,Kamil Sicinski
John Karl Scholz
We use unique longitudinal data to document an economically and statistically significant positive correlation between the facial attractiveness of male high school graduates and their subsequent labor market earnings. There are only weak l...
The Asymmetric Experience of Positive and Negative Economic Growth: Global Evidence Using Subjective Well-Being Data [0.03%]
基于主观幸福感数据的正负经济增长体验全球证据的非对称性研究
Jan-Emmanuel De Neve,George Ward,Femke De Keulenaer et al.
Jan-Emmanuel De Neve et al.
Are individuals more sensitive to losses than gains in terms of economic growth? We find that measures of subjective well-being are more than twice as sensitive to negative as compared to positive economic growth. We use Gallup World Poll d...
THE LOCAL INFLUENCE OF PIONEER INVESTIGATORS ON TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION: EVIDENCE FROM NEW CANCER DRUGS [0.03%]
先驱调查者的地方影响力与技术采纳：新抗癌药物的证据
Leila Agha,David Molitor
Leila Agha
Local opinion leaders may play a key role in easing information frictions associated with technology adoption. This paper analyzes the influence of physician investigators who lead clinical trials for new cancer drugs. By comparing diffusio...
A Field Experiment on Search Costs and the Formation of Scientific Collaborations [0.03%]
一项关于搜索成本和科学合作形成问题的田野实验
Kevin J Boudreau,Tom Brady,Ina Ganguli et al.
Kevin J Boudreau et al.
We present the results of a field experiment conducted at Harvard Medical School to understand the extent to which search costs affect matching among scientific collaborators. We generated exogenous variation in search costs for pairs of po...
Andrew E Clark,Conchita D&#x;Ambrosio,Simone Ghislandi
Andrew E Clark
We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being and focus in particular on potential adaptation to poverty. We use panel data on almost 54,000 individuals living in Germany from 1985 to 2012 to show, first, that life satisfac...
Emma Aguila,Orazio Attanasio,Costas Meghir
Emma Aguila
Previous empirical literature has found a sharp decline in consumption during the first years of retirement, implying that individuals do not save enough for their retirement. This phenomenon is called the retirement consumption puzzle. We ...