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作者:Tekin, Erdal
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作者:Hiltz, Justin A.
作者单位:Claremont Colleges; Claremont Graduate University
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作者:Lane, Bradley W.
作者单位:University of Kansas
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作者:Homonoff, Tatiana; Kao, Lee-Sien; Selman, Javiera; Seybolt, Christina
作者单位:New York University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Tulane University; Tulane University
摘要:Regulation of goods associated with negative environmental externalities may decrease consumption of the targeted product, but may be ineffective at reducing the externality itself if close substitutes are left unregulated. We find evidence that plastic bag bans, the most common disposable bag regulation in the U.S., led retailers to circumvent the regulation by providing free thicker plastic bags, which are not covered by the ban. In contrast, a regulation change that replaced the ban with a ...
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作者:Baird, Matthew; Kofoed, Michael S.; Miller, Trey; Wenger, Jennie
作者单位:RAND Corporation; United States Department of Defense; United States Army; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; RAND Corporation
摘要:In 2010, Congress reauthorized the Post-9/11 GI Bill by changing reimbursement rates from by-state maximums to a nationwide limit. This policy created exogenous variation in financial aid for veterans at private universities. We detect changes in tuition only for for-profit colleges, where we estimate a 1 percent pass-through rate. This response is mainly from states with decreased benefits; colleges with more veterans, and colleges whose pre-change tuition was above the state maximum but belo...
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作者:Sparks, Daniel
作者单位:Columbia University; Columbia University Teachers College
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作者:Dusek, Libor; Pardo, Nicolas; Traxler, Christian
作者单位:Charles University Prague; Hertie School; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; Max Planck Society
摘要:This paper studies the enforcement of fines, and, in particular, the effects of simplification and salience nudges on timely payments. In a randomized controlled trial, we add cover letters to 80,000 payment notifications for speeding. The letters increase the salience of the payment deadline, the late penalty, or both. Emphasizing only the deadline is not effective. Stressing the late penalty significantly and persistently increases payment rates. The effect is largest if both parameters are ...
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作者:Ham, Andres; Maldonado, Dario; Weintraub, Michael; Camacho, Andres Felipe; Gualtero, Daniela
作者单位:Universidad de los Andes (Colombia); Universidad de los Andes (Colombia); Universidad de los Andes (Colombia)
摘要:This paper evaluates the randomized Good Drinks program in four localities of Bogota, Colombia. The intervention encourages bartenders to adopt standardized practices that promote responsible behavior in terms of alcohol consumption with the goal of reducing alcohol-related violence and was implemented in cooperation with Colombia's largest brewery and the city's Secretariat of Security, Coexistence, and Justice. Tracing out the relationship between alcohol consumption and violence is useful b...
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作者:Tekin, Erdal
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作者:Chen, Alice J.; Munnich, Elizabeth L.; Parente, Stephen T.; Richards, Michael R.
作者单位:University of Southern California; University of Louisville; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Baylor University
摘要:Medicare is a roughly $700 billion public program, with physician payments representing one of its largest expenditures. Medicare's prices are also administratively set, which leaves the structure of payment changes subject to a political process that may introduce idiosyncratic features and even perverse incentives. At the same time, physician responses to changes in Medicare reimbursements are likely to vary according to the policy's duration, scope, and size. We study a setting where broad ...