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Mashup Score: 13Patient versus Provider Incentives in Long-Term Care - 5 month(s) ago
(July 2024) – How do patient and provider incentives affect the provision of long-term care? Our analysis of 551,000 nursing home stays yields three main insights. First, due to limited cost-sharing, Medicaid-covered residents prolong their nursing home stays instead of transitioning to community-based care. Second, when facility capacity binds, nursing homes shorten Medicaid stays to admit more profitable out-of-pocket private payers. Third, providers react more elastically to financial incentives than patients. Thus, targeting provider incentives through alternative payment models, such as episode-based reimbursement, is more effective than increasing patient cost sharing in facilitating transitions to community-based care and generating long-term care savings.
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(Winter 2006) – In this paper, we focus on the effects of surname initials on professional outcomes in the academic labor market for economists. We begin our analysis with data on faculty in all top 35 U.S. economics departments. Faculty with earlier surname initials are significantly more likely to receive tenure at top ten economics departments, are significantly more likely to become fellows of the Econometric Society, and, to a lesser extent, are more likely to receive the Clark Medal and the Nobel Prize. These statistically significant differences remain the same even after we control for country of origin, ethnicity, religion or departmental fixed effects. As a test, we replicate our analysis for faculty in the top 35 U.S. psychology departments, for which coauthorships are not normatively ordered alphabetically. We find no relationship between alphabetical placement and tenure status in psychology. We suspect the “alphabetical discrimination” reported in this paper is linked to
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Well, you learn something new every day: https://t.co/x6abPGy8Nk https://t.co/tx9m2gj00T
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Mashup Score: 14Journal of Economic Literature - 6 month(s) ago
Vol. 62 No. 2 June 2024
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RT @AEAjournals: The June 2024 issue of the Journal of Economic Literature (62, 2) is now available online at https://t.co/E8qIDssc2p.
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Mashup Score: 10Anticipatory Anxiety and Wishful Thinking - 8 month(s) ago
(April 2024) – Across five experiments (N = 1,714), we test whether people engage in wishful thinking to alleviate anxiety about adverse future outcomes. Participants perform pattern recognition tasks in which some patterns may result in an electric shock or a monetary loss. Diagnostic of wishful thinking, participants are less likely to correctly identify patterns that are associated with a shock or loss. Wishful thinking is more pronounced under more ambiguous signals and only reduced by higher accuracy incentives when participants’ cognitive effort reduces ambiguity. Wishful thinking disappears in the domain of monetary gains, indicating that negative emotions are important drivers of the phenomenon.
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“Anticipatory Anxiety and Wishful Thinking” by Joël van der Weele et al. American Economic Review https://t.co/ERhK8fjk0W 3/3
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Mashup Score: 0The Impact of Youth Medicaid Eligibility on Adult Incarceration - 11 month(s) ago
(January 2024) – This paper identifies an important spillover associated with public health insurance: reduced incarceration. In 1990, Congress passed legislation that increased Medicaid eligibility for individuals born after September 30, 1983. We show that Black children born just after the cutoff are 5 percent less likely to be incarcerated by age 28, driven primarily by a decrease in incarcerations connected to financially motivated offenses. Children of other races, who experienced almost no gain in Medicaid coverage as a result of the policy, demonstrate no such decline. We find that reduced incarceration in adulthood substantially offsets the initial costs of expanding eligibility.
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The Impact of Youth Medicaid Eligibility on Adult Incarceration https://t.co/UOLx3gkxYX via @sam_arenberg et al https://t.co/o6xqOtBzXF
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Mashup Score: 0Unpacking P-hacking and Publication Bias - 1 year(s) ago
(November 2023) – We use unique data from journal submissions to identify and unpack publication bias and p-hacking. We find initial submissions display significant bunching, suggesting the distribution among published statistics cannot be fully attributed to a publication bias in peer review. Desk-rejected manuscripts display greater heaping than those sent for review; i.e., marginally significant results are more likely to be desk rejected. Reviewer recommendations, in contrast, are positively associated with statistical significance. Overall, the peer review process has little effect on the distribution of test statistics. Lastly, we track rejected papers and present evidence that the prevalence of publication biases is perhaps not as prominent as feared.
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Unpacking P-hacking and Publication Bias https://t.co/IlWsUyI3kN via @secarrell et al https://t.co/b8tK9ORqLD
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Mashup Score: 0Collateralized Marriage - 1 year(s) ago
(October 2023) – Marriage rates have become increasingly stratified by homeownership. We investigate this in a household model where investments in public goods reduce future earnings and, thus, divorce risk creates inefficiencies. Access to a joint savings technology, like a house, collateralizes marriage, providing insurance to the lower-earning partner and increasing specialization, public goods, and value from marriage. We use idiosyncratic variation in housing prices to show that homeownership access indeed leads to greater specialization. The model also predicts that policies that erode the marriage contract in other ways will make wealth a more important determinant of marriage, which we confirm empirically.
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Collateralized Marriage https://t.co/4FtASRy7pr via @femonomics et al
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Mashup Score: 0Intergenerational Mobility in American History: Accounting for Race and Measurement Error - 1 year(s) ago
(Forthcoming Article) – A large body of evidence finds that relative mobility in the US has declined over the past 150 years. However, long-run mobility estimates are usually based on white samples and therefore do not account for the limited opportunities available for non-white families. Moreover, historical data measure the father’s status with error, which biases estimates toward greater mobility. Using linked census data from 1850–1940, I show that accounting for race and measurement error can double estimates of intergenerational persistence. Updated estimates imply that there is greater equality of opportunity today than in the past, mostly because opportunity was never that equal.
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Intergenerational Mobility in American History: Accounting for Race and Measurement Error https://t.co/fEc8UOmkwB via @EconZach
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Mashup Score: 0Does promoting one healthy behavior detract from others? Evidence from a field experiment - 1 year(s) ago
(Forthcoming Article) – Impact evaluations of behavioral interventions typically focus on target outcomes. Might interventions induce negative spillovers on other behaviors? I run a large field experiment in which individuals receive combinations of messages and incentives promoting two healthy behaviors, meditation and meal logging. I find that the interventions reduce completion rates of the opposite behavior by 19–29%. I find that interventions with larger target effects do not necessarily generate larger negative spillovers, and demonstrate implications for cost-effectiveness analysis. I investigate the mechanisms behind the observed spillovers.
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Does promoting 1 hlthy behavior detract from others? Evid from a field experiment https://t.co/DfRUFTusDU via @HebrewU 's #HannahTrachtman Wonder what this means for all those risk factors 4 dementia? @ProfRobHoward @seb_walsh @ajlees @nvillain_alz @LonSchneiderMD @KasperKepp https://t.co/YJ27xYGVul
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Mashup Score: 0Rising Markups, Rising Prices? - 1 year(s) ago
Rising Markups, Rising Prices? by Christopher Conlon, Nathan H. Miller, Tsolmon Otgon and Yi Yao. Published in volume 113, pages 279-83 of AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2023, Abstract: The rise in markups and market power documented by De Loecker, Eeckhout, and Unger (2020) has recently generated…
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Rising Markups, Rising Prices? https://t.co/1plQD9znfD via @conlon_chris et al
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RT @NicolasZiebarth: Finally in print: "Patient versus Provider Incentives in Long-Term Care" https://t.co/LhW0v9I1cg Thanks for the grea…