The effect of shift structure on worker performance and productivity is an issue of increasing interest to firms and regulatory bodies. Using approximately 742,000 emergency medical incidents attended by 2,400 paramedics in the state of Mississippi, we evaluate the extent to which paramedics'...

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The effect of shift structure on worker performance and productivity is an issue of increasing interest to firms and regulatory bodies. Using approximately 742,000 emergency medical incidents attended by 2,400 paramedics in the state of Mississippi, we evaluate the extent to which paramedics’...

The effect of shift structure on worker performance and productivity is an issue of increasing interest to firms and regulatory bodies. Using approximately 742,000 emergency medical incidents attended by 2,400 paramedics in the state of Mississippi, we evaluate the extent to which paramedics'...

When a binary variable is misclassified, the measurement error is necessarily correlated with the truth. This observation has implications for an instrumental variables (IV) framework in which the endogenous variable is a potentially mismeasured binary variable. Ignoring misclassification leads...

In simple terms, endogeneity is the violation of an assumption in regression analysis that, if not properly addressed, may undermine the reliability of standard empirical analyses and of the inferences based upon them. Endogeneity arises when one or more of the explanatory variables included as...

This amicus brief was filed in Federal Trade Commission v. Phoebe Putney Health System, Inc., in which the FTC has obtained review of an 11th Circuit decision that insulated a merger of two nonprofit hospitals from antitrust scrutiny. We make two arguments in the amicus brief. First, there is no...