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This dissertation investigates the economics of scale and complexity in healthcare. Chapter one provides an overview of the dissertation. Chapter two measures trade and e [...]
2024-03 |
Harris School of Public Policy Studies |
Dissertation |
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Do markets make or break nations? I study the impacts of increases in market integration on white settlers’ national identity choice in colonial South Africa. For causa [...]
2024-03 |
Harris School of Public Policy Studies |
Dissertation |
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<p>Importance: The unaffordability of drugs has been a persistent and elusive challenge in the US health care system. Little is known about the prevalence and persi [...]
03 March 2021 |
Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics; Medicine |
Article |
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<p>Importance: Childhood lead poisoning causes irreversible neurobehavioral deficits, but current practice is secondary prevention.</p> <p>Objective: To [...]
16 September 2020 |
Harris School of Public Policy Studies |
Article |
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<p>Importance: The association of patient desire to participate in health care decisions with care satisfaction is poorly understood. The contributions of such desi [...]
02 October 2020 |
Medicine |
Article |
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<p>Importance: Although abortion is common in the United States, patients face substantial barriers to obtaining an abortion. Recently enacted abortion restrictions [...]
09 November 2020 |
Obstetrics and Gynecology; Pediatrics |
Article |
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Anecdotal evidence suggests that some leaders are more effective than others but observed differences in outcomes between leaders could be attributable to chance variatio [...]
20 January 2021 |
Harris School of Public Policy Studies |
Article |
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No abstract
08 February 2024 |
Harris School of Public Policy Studies |
Article |
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Oil and gas leases between mineral owners and extraction firms typically specify a date by which the firm must either drill a well or lose the lease. These deadlines are [...]
30 January 2024 |
Harris School of Public Policy Studies |
Article |
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Hypertension is an important and modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease and mortality. Over the last decade, national-levels of controlled hypertension have in [...]
05 April 2013 |
Harris School of Public Policy Studies |
Article |
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No abstract
21 December 2023 |
Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics; Medicine; Surgery |
Article |
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When 21 million people got insurance through the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion in 2014, how many healthcare jobs were created? We study the supply response to [...]
2023-12 |
Harris School of Public Policy Studies |
Dissertation |
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Scientific evidence regularly guides policy decisions, with behavioural science increasingly part of this process. In April 2020, an influential paper3 proposed 19 policy [...]
13 December 2023 |
Harris School of Public Policy Studies |
Article |
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This paper examines changes from 1996–2019 in U.S. parents’ time investment at their children’s schools using data from the National Household Education Survey (N [...]
17 April 2023 |
Harris School of Public Policy Studies |
Article |
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We propose a new simulation-based estimation method, adversarial estimation, for structural models. The estimator is formulated as the solution to a minimax problem betwe [...]
07 December 2023 |
Econometrics and Statistics |
Article |
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Measurement errors are often a large source of bias in survey data. Lack of knowledge of the determinants of such errors makes it difficult to reduce the extent of errors [...]
28 November 2023 |
Harris School of Public Policy Studies |
Article |
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Few phenomena have had as profound or long-lasting consequences in human history as the emergence of large-scale centralized states in the place of smaller scale and more [...]
24 December 2018 |
Harris School of Public Policy Studies |
Article |
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A world where information is abundant promises unprecedented opportunities for information exchange. Seven studies suggest these opportunities work better in theory than [...]
10 December 2018 |
Behavioral Science |
Article |
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Social inequality in mathematical skill is apparent at kindergarten entry and persists during elementary school. To level the playing field, we trained teachers to assess [...]
26 October 2020 |
Education; Psychology; Sociology |
Article |
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Encouraging vaccination is a pressing policy problem. To assess whether text-based reminders can encourage pharmacy vaccination and what kinds of messages work best, we c [...]
01 February 2022 |
Behavioral Science; Marketing |
Article |
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The reintegration of former members of violent extremist groups is a pressing policy challenge. Governments and policymakers often have to change minds among reticent pop [...]
11 October 2021 |
Harris School of Public Policy Studies |
Article |
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Why do rational politicians choose inefficient policy instruments? Environmental regulation, for example, often takes the form of technology standards and quotas even whe [...]
06 May 2019 |
Harris School of Public Policy Studies |
Article |
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We analyze a model of moral hazard in local public services which could be efficiently managed by officials under local democratic accountability, but not by officials wh [...]
04 September 2020 |
Harris School of Public Policy Studies |
Article |
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Books shape how children learn about society and norms, in part through representation of different characters. We use computational tools to characterize representation [...]
31 August 2023 |
Data Science Institute |
Article |
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Intergroup contact, originally designed as a tool for prejudice reduction, offers a promising means to resolve intergroup conflict. Evidence for contact-based interventio [...]
19 October 2023 |
Harris School of Public Policy Studies |
Article |
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