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Willingness to pay for air quality is a function of health and the costly defensive investments that contribute to health, but there is little research assessing the empirical importance of defensive investments. The setting for this paper is a large US emissions cap and trade market - the NOx...
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: consumer surplus from a hospital demand system and the fraction of population hospital admissions that would be covered by the …
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data, I then show that this type of demand heterogeneity is empirically relevant in a consumer health plan setting. Younger … and older consumers and men and women reveal strikingly different demand for health insurance, conditional on their …
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We show how to construct a ranking of U.S. undergraduate programs based on students' revealed preferences. We construct examples of national and regional rankings, using hand-collected data on 3,240 high-achieving students. Our statistical model extends models used for ranking players in...
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The effect of website provision on the demand for German women's magazines is analyzed using differentiated product … demand models estimated on panel data that cover the period 1990 2000. Descriptive evidence on the magazines' website … alternative econometric approaches to identify the demand model. A counter-factual analysis shows, however, that online magazines …
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We study the role of fairness concerns in the demand for redistribution through workfare. In the first part of the …
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We study the dynamics of residential electricity demand by exploiting a natural experiment that produced large and long … that the price elasticity of demand grows from –0:09 in the first six months to –0:27 two years later. We also estimate a …
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We propose a technique for assessing robustness of behavioral measures and treatment effects to experimenter demand … effects. The premise is that by deliberately inducing demand in a structured way we can measure its influence and construct … plausible bounds on demand-free behavior. We provide formal restrictions on choice that validate our method, and a Bayesian …
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, as the disaster risk increases, customers demand more puts as insurance while market makers become more credit …
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Coordinated single-offer school assignment systems are a popular education reform. We show that uncoordinated offers in NYC's school assignment mechanism generated mismatches. One-third of applicants were unassigned after the main round and later administratively placed at less desirable...
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