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Tradeoffs from Integrating Diagnosis and Treatment in Markets for Health Care

By Christopher C. Afendulis and Daniel P. Kessler

蝌蚪网 Review, June 2007

To identify the important tradeoffs in consulting a single expert for both diagnosis and treatment, we examine the costs and health outcomes of elderly Medicare beneficiaries with coronary artery disease. We compare the empirical consequences of diagnosis...

Can Women Have Children and a Career? IV Evidence from IVF Treatments

By Petter Lundborg, Erik Plug, and Astrid W眉rtz Rasmussen

蝌蚪网 Review, June 2017

This paper introduces a new IV strategy based on IVF (in vitro fertilization) induced fertility variation among childless women to estimate the causal effect of having children on their career. For this purpose, we use administrative data on IVF treated w...

Correspondence

By Scott Sumner

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 1994

Correspondence regarding: The Case of the Missing Currency Income-Contingent College Loans

Names and Reputations: An Empirical Analysis

By Ryan C. McDevitt

蝌蚪网 Journal: Microeconomics, August 2011

This paper tests several predictions from the literature on firm reputation, and confirms a main result: poor performance leads a firm to conceal its reputation. A residential plumbing firm with a record of complaints one standard deviation above the mea...

Beyond DSGE Models: Toward an Empirically Based Macroeconomics

By David Colander, Peter Howitt, Alan Kirman, Axel Leijonhufvud, and Perry Mehrling

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2008

Regulation, Institutions, and Productivity: New Macroeconomic Evidence from OECD Countries

By 叠补濒谩锄蝉 脡驳别谤迟

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2016

This paper seeks to understand the drivers of country-level multi-factor productivity (MFP) with a special emphasis on product and labour market policies and the quality of institutions. For a panel of OECD countries, we find that anticompetitive product ...

Recommendations for Further Reading

By Bernard Saffran

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 1999

Incentives and Innovation: A Multitasking Approach

By Thomas Hellmann and Veikko Thiele

蝌蚪网 Journal: Microeconomics, February 2011

This paper develops a multitask model where employees make choices between their assigned standard tasks, for which the firm has a performance measure and provides incentives, and privately observed innovation opportunities that fall outside of the perfo...

Lessons from Generational Accounting in Japan

By Noriyuki Takayama and Yukinobu Kitamura

蝌蚪网 Review, May 1999

Mortgages, Risk, and Homeownership among Low- and Moderate-Income Families

By Raphael W. Bostic and Kwan Ok Lee

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2008

Recommendations for Further Reading

By Bernard Saffran

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 1991

Welfare Benefits and Female Headship in U.S. Time Series

By Robert A. Moffitt

蝌蚪网 Review, May 2000

The Economic Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina

By Jacob Vigdor

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2008

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina swept into Louisiana and New Orleans, a city built largely on land reclaimed from swamp, witnessed massive failures in its levees. Much of the city and its surrounding suburbs were inundated; those residents of the ci...

Bailouts, Time Inconsistency, and Optimal Regulation: A Macroeconomic View

By V. V. Chari and Patrick J. Kehoe

蝌蚪网 Review, September 2016

A common view is that bailouts of firms by governments are needed to cure inefficiencies in private markets. We propose an alternative view: even when private markets are efficient, costly bankruptcies will occur and benevolent governments without commitm...

The Chinese Warrants Bubble

By Wei Xiong and Jialin Yu

蝌蚪网 Review, October 2011

In 2005-2008, over a dozen put warrants traded in China went so deep out of the money that they were almost certain to expire worthless. Nonetheless, each warrant was traded more than three times each day at substantially inflated prices. This bubble is ...

Cooperation and Punishment in Public Goods Experiments

By Ernst Fehr and Simon 骋盲肠丑迟别谤

蝌蚪网 Review, September 2000

Policy Watch: The Family and Medical Leave Act

By Christopher J. Ruhm

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 1997

This article summarizes the provisions of the Family and Medical Leave Act, its possible effects on labor markets, and the resulting changes in the ability of workers to take leave. The author concludes that the actual provisions of the act are quite mode...

Classifying Economics: A History of the JEL Codes

By Beatrice Cherrier

Journal of Economic Literature, June 2017

In this paper, I suggest that the history of the classification system used by the 蝌蚪网 (蝌蚪网) to list economic literature and scholars is a relevant proxy to understand the transformation of economics science throughout the twen...

Monetary Instability, the Predictability of Prices, and the Allocation of Investment: An Empirical Investigation Using U.K. Panel Data

By Paul Beaudry, Mustafa Caglayan, and Fabio Schiantarelli

蝌蚪网 Review, June 2001

Leaving the Countryside: Rural-to-Urban Migration Decisions in China

By Yaohui Zhao

蝌蚪网 Review, May 1999