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作者：Daubanes, Julien; Rochet, Jean-Charles
作者单位：University of Geneva
摘要：Activist nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) increasingly oppose firms' practices. We suggest this might be related to the vulnerability of public regulation to corporate influence. We examine a potentially harmful industrial project subject to regulatory approval. Under industry influence, the regulator may approve the project even though it is harmful. However, an NGO may oppose it. We characterize the circumstances under which NGO opposition occurs and under which it is socially beneficial...
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作者：Johnson, Rucker C.; Jackson, C. Kirabo
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley; National Bureau of Economic Research; Northwestern University
摘要：We compare the adult outcomes of cohorts who were differentially exposed to policy-induced changes in Head Start and K-12 spending, depending on place and year of birth. IV and sibling-difference estimates indicate that, for poor children, these policies both increased educational attainment and earnings, and reduced poverty and incarceration. The benefits of Head Start were larger when followed by access to better-funded schools, and increases in K-12 spending were more efficacious when prece...
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作者：Barseghyan, Levon; Clark, Damon; Coate, Stephen
作者单位：Cornell University; University of California System; University of California Irvine
摘要：This paper develops a new economic model of public school choice. The key innovation is to model competition between schools in an environment in which parents have peer preferences. The analysis yields three main findings. First, peer preferences dampen schools' incentives to exert effort in response to competitive pressure. Second, when peer preferences are sufficiently strong, choice can reduce social welfare. This is because choice is costly to exercise but aggregate peer quality is fixed....
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作者：Dranove, David; Ody, Christopher
作者单位：Northwestern University; Analysis Group Inc.
摘要：Hospitals employ an increasing number of physicians and bill for a growing share of outpatient procedures. We exploit a plausibly exogenous increase in Medicare prices for hospital-employed physicians relative to Medicare prices for other physicians to show that payer reimbursement rules explain part of this trend. The shock we study explains 20 percent of the increase in physician employment and 75 percent of the increase in hospital-billed outpatient procedures between 2009 and 2013.
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作者：Andrews, Rodney J.; Stange, Kevin M.
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：We assess the importance of price regulation and price discrimination to low-income students' access to opportunities in public higher education. In 2003, Texas shifted tuition-setting authority away from the state legislature to public universities themselves. In response, most institutions raised sticker prices and many began charging more for high-earning majors, such as business and engineering. We find that poor students actually shifted toward higher earning programs following deregulati...
