Studies of organizational learning and forgetting identify potential channels through which the firm’s production experience is lost. While the ability to distinguish between these channels has implications for efficient resource allocation within the firm, to date, their relative importance...

Identifying the causal effect of prenatal maternal smoking on infant health is complicated by unobservable maternal characteristics and behaviors which are plausibly related to both birth outcomes and a mother’s propensity to smoke. Previous studies have addressed the omitted variables problem...

This is a copy of an article published in the Population Health Management © 2011 Copyright Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.; Population Health Management is available online at: http://www.liebertonline.com. DOI: 10.1089/pop.2010.0021.