James C Cox,Vjollca Sadiraj,Kurt E Schnier et al.
James C Cox et al.
The recent regulatory changes enacted by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have identified hospital readmission rates as a critical healthcare quality metric. This research focuses on the utilization of pay-for-performanc...
Higher Quality and Lower Cost from Improving Hospital Discharge Decision Making [0.03%]
改善出院决策以提高医疗质量及降低医疗成本
James C Cox,Vjollca Sadiraj,Kurt E Schnier et al.
James C Cox et al.
This paper reports research on improving decisions about hospital discharges - decisions that are now made by physicians based on mainly subjective evaluations of patients' discharge status. We report an experiment on uptake of our clinical...
Mireille G Jacobson,Tom Y Chang,Craig C Earle et al.
Mireille G Jacobson et al.
We investigate the role of physician agency in determining health care supply and patient outcomes. We show that an increase in health care supply due to a change in private physician incentives has a theoretically ambiguous impact on patie...
Economic Preferences and Obesity among a Low-Income African American Community [0.03%]
经济偏好与低收入非裔美国社区的肥胖问题
Angela C M de Oliveira,Tammy C M Leonard,Kerem Shuval et al.
Angela C M de Oliveira et al.
Obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the US, with a significantly higher fraction of African Americans who are obese than whites. Yet there is little understanding of why some individuals become obese while others do not. We conduct ...
Heterogeneous Households A within-subject test of asymmetric information between spouses in Kenya [0.03%]
异质家庭：肯尼亚配偶间不对称信息的_within_-subject测试
Jessica B Hoel
Jessica B Hoel
To identify which spouses respond to asymmetric information, I play two dictator games with each member of the couple. One decision is kept secret from the respondent's spouse, while another choice is public. Most people give the same amoun...
Christopher C Afendulis,Anna D Sinaiko,Richard G Frank
Christopher C Afendulis
Research in behavioral economics suggests that certain circumstances, such as large numbers of complex options or revisiting prior choices, can lead to decision errors. This paper explores the enrollment decisions of Medicare beneficiaries ...
Loukas Balafoutas,Rudolf Kerschbamer,Martin Kocher et al.
Loukas Balafoutas et al.
We compare experimentally the revealed distributional preferences of individuals and teams in allocation tasks. We find that teams are significantly more benevolent than individuals in the domain of disadvantageous inequality while the bene...
Debiasing the disposition effect by reducing the saliency of information about a stock's purchase price [0.03%]
通过降低股票购买价格信息的显著性来消除处置效应中的偏差
Cary Frydman,Antonio Rangel
Cary Frydman
The disposition effect refers to the empirical fact that investors have a higher propensity to sell risky assets with capital gains compared to risky assets with capital losses, and it has been associated with low trading performance. We us...
Is Smoking Behavior Culturally Determined? Evidence from British Immigrants [0.03%]
移民的吸烟行为受文化影响吗？英国移民案例研究
Rebekka Christopoulou,Dean R Lillard
Rebekka Christopoulou
We exploit migration patterns from the UK to Australia and the US to investigate whether a person's decision to smoke is determined by culture. For each country, we use retrospective data to describe individual smoking trajectories over the...
Economic probes of mental function and the extraction of computational phenotypes [0.03%]
经济心理学视角下的精神机能探究及计算表型提取方法论思考
Kenneth T Kishida,P Read Montague
Kenneth T Kishida
Economic games are now routinely used to characterize human cognition across multiple dimensions. These games allow for effective computational modeling of mental function because they typically come equipped with notions of optimal play, w...