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This paper provides evidence for the effectiveness of performance pay to government workers and how performance pay interacts with demand-side information. In an experiment covering 145 child day-care centres, I implement three separate treatments. First, I engineer an exogenous change in...
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experiment, mothers of children (aged 3-6 years) enrolled in government day-care centers were provided recipe books to lower …
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the first evidence on the determinants of uptake of two recent public dental benefit programs for Australian children and …. For instance, mothers with worse mental health or riskier lifestyles are much less likely to claim the available benefits … for their children. These barriers to uptake are particularly large in magnitude: together they reduce the uptake rate by …
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The work constructs projections till 2030 for health care expenditures of Italian Regional Health Care Systems. Three … them, with a full breakdown per Regions. A useful work for stimulating the debate on health system reforms in Italy …
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Evaluating Accountable Care Organizations is difficult because there is a great deal of heterogeneity in terms of their reimbursement incentives and other programmatic features. We examine how variation in reimbursement incentives and administration among two Medicaid managed care plans impacts...
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of children. We employ a quasi-experimental approach exploiting the location-specific timing of MMC implementation in … are concentrated among low-income children and absent for high-income children. We find no evidence of “crowd …
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Medicaid coverage of children using state administrative data from Georgia. Our analysis focuses on children enrolled in … children were slightly more likely to exit during the first "high impact" recertification in which the enhanced citizenship … verification was binding than children whose first recertification occurred just prior to the reform. In addition, we observe a …
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? The Women’s Health Initiative, an innovative public private partnership that drew reference from the UN Global Compact …
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lower average health among marginal surviving children or a quantity-quality trade-off where the unanticipated survival of …-called "Universal Immunization Program" (UIP)in order to reduce the high mortality and morbidity among children. I examine the effect of … reduced mortality, it had mixed effects on children's educational outcomes. I fnd it had a negative impact on primary school …
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piston-engine aircraft. Deposition of lead from avgas may pose a health risk to children proximate to airport facilities that …Lead is a neurotoxin with developmentally harmful effects in children. In the United States, over half of the current … service lead-emitting aircraft. Extrapolating from epidemiological evidence on the health and human capital costs of lead …
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