This study determines whether long-sleep (≥ 9 hours per night) is causally related to lower self-rated health. Lewbel instrumental variable estimation is used with data on adults from the 2010 National Health Interview Survey (n = 26,607).Lewbel instrumental variable estimation enables the...

Chronic pain is an issue that forensic economists are often called upon to value. However, some methods of valuing chronic pain are difficult for judges and juries to understand. One approach that is relatively easy for judges and juries to grasp is the subjective well-being valuation method,...

As health insurance benefit designs become more innovative, fully understanding provider responses to consumer cost-sharing is important. This paper examines the effect of reference pricing, an insurance program that increases consumer cost sharing when consumers choose high-priced providers. We...

Internal auditors play an important role in influencing managers’ judgments. Yet, the practitioner literature indicates that, because internal audit lacks the client services incentives of external audit, internal auditors often adopt a “policeman approach” that can lead to negative...

This paper reports the results of multiple studies that together provide converging evidence in support of theory that gender stereotypes bias employee selection during group recruiting events. Specifically, we predict and find that female (male) job candidates who exhibit stereotypically male...

In recent years, regulators have considered several initiatives to lower the threshold for disclosing risks to investors. We examine two ways in which disclosing more risks can actually lower investors' perceptions of risk. Utilizing an experiment, we find evidence of two unintended consequences...

This paper reports the results of three studies that together provide converging evidence in support of theory that gender stereotypes bias employee selection during group recruiting events. Specifically, we find that female (male) job candidates who tend to exhibit stereotypically male...