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• Managing Last Moment Behavior: Non-binding target dates to reduce the spikes in task completion at deadlines q AI翻译
  作者：Dirkmaat, Thomas; Rohde, Kirsten I. M.; Veer, Evelien van de; van Dijk, Bram; Yu, Xiao
  作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Tinbergen Institute; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  摘要：Many large governmental programs -such as census, tax returns, grant applications, subsidy applications -have to deal with large volumes of submissions that take place right before the deadline. To study how to alleviate the overload during the peak submission period, we conducted two field experiments in a national census that includes submissions from farming enterprises in the Netherlands (n = 28,557 in 2016; n =19,733 in 2017). The results show that setting an earlier non-binding target da...
• Offshore tax evasion and wealth inequality: Evidence from a tax amnesty in the Netherlands AI翻译
  作者：Leenders, Wouter; Lejour, Arjan; Rabate, Simon; van 't Riet, Maarten
  作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley; CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy; Tilburg University; CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy; Leiden University - Excl LUMC; CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy; Leiden University
  摘要：Exploiting unique datasets covering over 29,000 tax evaders in the Netherlands, we investigate the dis-tribution of tax evasion and its implications for the measurement of wealth inequality. Tax evasion is concentrated at the top of the wealth distribution with over 10% of the wealthiest 0.01% of households - the super rich - evading taxes. At the top, households evade around 8% of their true tax liability. The merely rich (P90-P99.9) own 67% of hidden wealth, while the super rich account for ...
• When (and why) providers do not respond to changes in reimbursement rates AI翻译
  作者：Dillender, Marcus; Jinks, Lu; Lo Sasso, Anthony T.
  作者单位：Vanderbilt University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Analysis Group Inc.; National Bureau of Economic Research
  摘要：Policies to reduce health care payments can lead to health care access issues if providers reduce their sup-ply in response to reimbursement rate reductions. We examine the impact of a policy that reduced reimbursement rates by 30% in a workers' compensation insurance system that provided generous reimbursement rates relative to other payers even after the rate reduction. The results suggest that providers' supply is inelastic at the part of the reimbursement distribution that we study. Our es...
• The disparate effects of information provision: A field experiment on the work incentives of social welfare AI翻译
  作者：Cairo, Sofie; Mahlstedt, Robert
  作者单位：Harvard University; University of Copenhagen; IZA Institute Labor Economics; University of Copenhagen
  摘要：Recipients of transfer payments must navigate intricate rules and regulations governing their incentives. This complexity carries the risk of prompting them to make privately suboptimal decisions and may, in turn, reduce overall welfare. Combining data from a large-scale scale field experiment and detailed administrative records, we investigate the labor market effects of informing social welfare recipients about their work incentives resulting from a minimum work requirement. Our intervention...
• Dangerous prescribing and healthcare fragmentation: Evidence from opioids AI翻译
  作者：Ericson, Keith Marzilli; Sacarny, Adam; Zhou, Annetta
  作者单位：Boston University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Columbia University; RAND Corporation
  摘要：Fragmented healthcare received from many different physicians results in higher costs and lower quality, but does it contribute to dangerous opioid prescribing? The effect is theoretically ambiguous because fragmentation can trigger costly coordination failures but also permits greater specialization. We examine dangerous opioid prescribing, defined as receiving high dosages, long prescription durations, or harmfully interacting medications. Cross-sectionally, regions with higher fragmentation...
• On the optimal reform of income support for single parents AI翻译
  作者：Ortigueira, Salvador; Siassi, Nawid
  作者单位：Washington State University; Technische Universitat Wien
  摘要：We characterize the optimal reform of U.S. income support for low-income single parents using a life-cycle heterogeneous agent model with idiosyncratic risk and incomplete asset markets. We use the U.S. tax-transfer system as the benchmark policy and a sample of single mothers drawn from the CPS to assess reforms that maximize average expected utility among single mothers-to-be. When policy cannot be tagged by the age of the children, the optimal reform calls for an increase in out-of-work inc...
• Employer-sponsored health insurance premiums and income in US tax data AI翻译
  作者：Lurie, Ithai Z.; Miller, Corbin L.
  作者单位：United States Department of the Treasury
  摘要：The distribution of employer-sponsored health insurance premiums in the United States is difficult to fully characterize with survey data. Using administrative tax data, we plot the population distribution of premiums and provide new evidence about the relationship between premiums and demographic characteristics, including income. The distribution of premiums measured in the tax data is comparable to survey data. People with higher incomes are more likely to have an employer-sponsored insuran...
• Timing matters: Intra-day shifts of economic activity and ambient ozone concentrations AI翻译
  作者：Adler, David; Severnini, Edson
  作者单位：Congressional Budget Office; Carnegie Mellon University; National Bureau of Economic Research
  摘要：Ground-level ozone has been shown to have significant negative health externalities from short-term exposure, and as such has been regulated by the U.S. Clean Air Act since the 1970s. Ozone is not emitted directly; instead formation occurs due to a complex Leontief-like combination of air pollutants, under sunlight and warm temperatures, that results in high levels mid-day and low levels at night. Despite this known relationship, EPA regulations mostly consider the total emissions of ozone pre...
• Crowding in with impure altruism: Theory and evidence from volunteerism in national parks AI翻译
  作者：Kotchen, Matthew J.; Wagner, Katherine R. H.
  作者单位：Yale University; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of British Columbia
  摘要：This paper makes three contributions to the literature on private provision of public goods. First, we iden-tify limitations of the frequently used specification test that distinguishes between the standard models of pure and impure altruism based on the extent of crowding out. While the literature takes as given the result that crowding out should be less with impure altruism than with pure altruism, we show that it can be either more or less. Second, we propose a new, more general test based...
• Can beneficiary information improve hospital accountability? Experimental evidence from a public health insurance scheme in India AI翻译
  作者：Dupas, Pascaline; Jain, Radhika
  作者单位：Stanford University; University of London; University College London
  摘要：We study the role of hospital compliance in the effectiveness of government health insurance in India. Using patient surveys, we document that participating hospitals charge unauthorized fees to poor patients eligible to receive free care. Average out-of-pocket payments (OOPP) for chronic kidney care patients are $43 per month, or 25% annual GDP per capita, and are high at both public and private hos-pitals. Awareness of program benefits is low despite patients having used insurance for severa...