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Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs, Opioid Abuse, and Crime

Dave, Dhaval - 2018

We study the spillover effects of prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) on crime, and in the process inform how policies that restrict access to Rx opioids per se within the healthcare system would impact broader non-health domains. In response to the substantial increase in opioid use...

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The Problem of Data Quality in Analyses of Opioid Regulation : The Case of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs

Horwitz, Jill R. - 2018

States, which have the primary legal role in regulating the prescribing and dispensing of prescription medications, have created Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMP) to try to reduce inappropriate prescribing, dispensing, and related harm. Research assessing whether these interventions...

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Government Decentralization Under Changing State Capacity : Experimental Evidence from Paraguay

Dal Bo, Ernesto - 2018

—they prioritized AEAs who would be more responsive to the monitoring treatment. We develop a model of monitoring under different …

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Monitoring Works : Getting Teachers to Come to School

Duflo, Esther; Hanna, Rema - 2021

In the rural areas of developing countries, teacher absence is a widespread problem. This paper tests whether a simple incentive program based on teacher presence can reduce teacher absence, and whether it has the potential to lead to more teaching activities and better learning. In 60 informal...

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Prison Crowding, Recidivism, and Early Release in Early Rhode Island

Bodenhorn, Howard - 2021

Prison overcrowding is a perennial problem and several states are under court order to reduce crowding. The long-term solution to crowding has been more prisons. The short-term solution is early release. Early release programs can be effective when they balance the savings of reduced prison...

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The Control of Politicians in Normal Times and Times of Crisis : Wealth Accumulation by U.S. Congressmen, 1850-1880

Querubin, Pablo - 2011

the decrease in control by the media and other monitors might have made it easier for incumbent congressmen to collect …

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Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances?

Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James Alan; Torvik, Ragnar - 2011

attitudes from a Latin American survey consistent with the model …

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The Political Economy of Indirect Control

Padró i Miquel, Gerard - 2010

This paper characterizes the efficient sequential equilibrium when a government uses indirect control to exert its … authority. We develop a dynamic principal-agent model in which a principal (a government) delegates the prevention of a … task. Our setting is a standard dynamic principal-agent model with two additional features. First, the principal is allowed …

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Unwilling or Unable to Cheat? Evidence from a Randomized Tax Audit Experiment in Denmark

Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen - 2010

the letter. All these empirical results can be explained by extending the standard model of (rational) tax evasion to …

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Why Can Modern Governments Tax so Much? An Agency Model of Firms as Fiscal Intermediaries

Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen - 2010

This paper presents a simple agency model to explain why third-party income reporting by employers dramatically … and low audit rates. Embedding this agency model into the standard Allingham-Sandmo tax evasion model, we show that third …, which fits with actual tax policy practices. We also embed the agency model into a simple macroeconomic growth model where …

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