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claims from Vietnam veterans, raising concerns about costs as well as health. We use the draft lottery to study the long …
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There is suggestive evidence that rates of major depression have risen markedly in the U.S. concurrent with the rise in obesity. The economic burden of depression, about $100 billion annually, is under-estimated if depression has a positive causal impact on obesity. If depression plays a causal...
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: Clients' median willingness to pay for drug rehabilitation fell short of the average program costs of $82 per week, which …
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in Germany after the Fukushima accident in 2011. We use hourly data on power plant operations and a novel machine … fossil fuels. Even the largest estimates of the reduction in the costs associated with nuclear accident risk and waste …
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on efficiency, costs and quality. Our review reveals that there has been some convergence in policies adopted across …
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This paper describes three prototypical systems of therapeutic reference pricing (RP) for pharmaceuticals -- Germany …
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This paper attempts to provide a more complete reckoning of the costs of the Iraq War, using standard economic and …, and the CBO's estimates put the projected total direct costs at around $500bn. These figures, however, greatly … underestimate the War's true costs. We estimate a range of present and future costs, by including expenditures not in the $500bn CBO …
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This paper explores two broad questions on collaboration between individuals. First, we investigate what personal characteristics affect people's desire to work together. Second, given the influence of these personal characteristics, we analyze whether this attraction enhances or detracts from...
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Does tax code complexity alter corporate behavior? This paper investigates this question by focusing on the decision to claim refunds for tax losses. In a sample of 1.2M observations from the population of corporate tax returns, only 37% of eligible firms claim their refund. A simple...
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of federal offenders. Not" surprisingly, constraints on cost minimization raise costs …
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