Bunching at the kink: implications for spending responses to health insurance contracts [0.03%]
分段合同中的拥挤问题：对健康保险支出反应的影响
Liran Einav,Amy Finkelstein,Paul Schrimpf
Liran Einav
A large literature in empirical public finance relies on "bunching" to identify a behavioral response to non-linear incentives and to translate this response into an economic object to be used counterfactually. We conduct this type of analy...
Special Interests and the Media: Theory and an Application to Climate Change [0.03%]
特殊利益集团与媒体：理论及气候变迁的应用实例
Jesse M Shapiro
Jesse M Shapiro
A journalist reports to a voter on an unknown, policy-relevant state. Competing special interests can make claims that contradict the facts but seem credible to the voter. A reputational incentive to avoid taking sides leads the journalist ...
Innovation under Regulatory Uncertainty: Evidence from Medical Technology [0.03%]
监管不确定性下的创新研究——来自医疗器械行业的证据
Ariel Dora Stern
Ariel Dora Stern
This paper explores how the regulatory approval process affects innovation incentives in medical technologies. Prior studies have found early mover regulatory advantages for drugs. I find the opposite for medical devices, where pioneer entr...
Michael Frakes,Anupam B Jena
Michael Frakes
We assess the potential for medical liability forces to deter medical errors and improve health care treatment quality, identifying liability's influence by drawing on variations in the manner by which states formulate the negligence standa...
Kathleen J Mullen,Stefan Staubli
Kathleen J Mullen
A key component for estimating the optimal size and structure of disability insurance (DI) programs is the elasticity of DI claiming with respect to benefit generosity. Yet, in many countries, including the United States, all workers face i...
The fiscal cost of weak governance: Evidence from teacher absence in India [0.03%]
治理不善的财政代价——来自印度教师旷工问题的证据
Karthik Muralidharan,Jishnu Das,Alaka Holla et al.
Karthik Muralidharan et al.
The relative return to strategies that augment inputs versus those that reduce inefficiencies remains a key open question for education policy in low-income countries. Using a new nationally-representative panel dataset of schools across 12...
Social Networks and Externalities from Gift Exchange: Evidence from A Field Experiment [0.03%]
基于礼物交换的外部性：一项田野实验证据
Janet Currie,Wanchuan Lin,Juanjuan Meng
Janet Currie
This paper asks whether gift exchange generates externalities for people outside of the bilateral relationship between the gift giver and recipient, and whether the nature of this relationship is affected by social networks. We examine this...
Yan Shen,Yang Yao
Yan Shen
Using village and household survey data collected from 48 villages of eight Chinese provinces for the period 1986-2002, this paper studies how the introduction of village elections affects income distribution at the village level. We estima...
Nutrition and Cognitive Achievement: An Evaluation of the School Breakfast Program [0.03%]
营养与认知成就：关于学校早餐计划的评估研究
David E Frisvold
David E Frisvold
This paper investigates the impact of the School Breakfast Program (SBP) on cognitive achievement. The SBP is a federal entitlement program that offers breakfast to any student, including free breakfast for any low-income student, who atten...
Voting suffrage and the political budget cycle: Evidence from the London Metropolitan Boroughs 1902-1937 [0.03%]
选举权与政治预算周期：来自1902至1937年伦敦大都会自治市的证据
Toke S Aidt,Graham Mooney
Toke S Aidt
We study the opportunistic political budget cycle in the London Metropolitan Boroughs between 1902 and 1937 under two different suffrage regimes: taxpayer suffrage (1902-1914) and universal suffrage (1921-1937). We argue and find supporting...