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Chakrabarti, Rajashri - 2019

Through changing the connection between insurance and employment, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has affected people's incentives to obtain education. We employ a triple-difference strategy comparing counties with different levels of uninsurance pre-ACA and in states with different Medicaid...

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Competition and Switching in Public Service Markets : Can They Reduce Inequalities?

Fernández-Gutiérrez, Marcos - 2018

Regulatory reforms across European countries have attempted to increase consumer welfare by introducing competition and choice into public service markets. But it has been questioned whether reforms have benefited all people equally, suggesting that vulnerable groups of service users are...

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Citizens in Charge? Reviewing the Background and Value of Introducing Choice and Competition in Public Services

Tummers, Lars - 2018

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Reference-Dependent Valuations of Risk : Why Willingness-to-Accept Exceeds Willingness-to-Pay

Viscusi, W. Kip - 2012

The gap between willingness-to-pay (WTP) and willingness-to-accept (WTA) benefit values typifies situations in which reference points — and direction of movement from reference points — are consequential. Why WTA-WTP discrepancies arise is not well understood. We generalize models of...

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The economics of research, consulting, and teaching quality : theory and evidence from a technical university

Bianchini, Stefano; Lissoni, Francesco; Pezzoni, Michele; … - 2014

We investigate the effect of both research and consulting on higher education teaching quality at the individual level … horizon, under the assumption of positive spillovers from research to both consulting opportunities and teaching, and of life … cycle effects on incentives. Propositions from the model are tested against teaching evaluation data from a mid …

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Strategic Responses to Third-Party Ratings : Theory and Evidence from Charities

Grant, Laura - 2022

available, two important research questions arise: Do the ratings influence the behavior of those rated? And if so, do the …

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Effizienzmessung in Hochschulen : Evaluation von Forschungs- und Lehreinheiten mit der Data Envelopment Analysis

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Wissenschaftsevaluation : die Bewertung wissenschaftlicher Forschung und Lehre

Stock, Wolfgang G. - 1994

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Using Job Changes to Evaluate the Bias of the Value of a Statistical Life

Spengler, Hannes; Schaffner, Sandra - 2008

This paper presents a new approach to obtain unbiased estimates of the value of a statistical life (VSL) with labor market data. Investigating job changes, we combine the advantages of recent panel studies, which allow to control for unobserved heterogeneity of workers, and conventional...

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Chapter 7. The Value of Individual and Societal Risks to Life and Health

Kip Viscusi, W. - In: Handbook of the economics of risk and uncertainty : volume 1, (pp. 385-452). 2014

The value of risks to life as measured by the risk-money trade-off plays a fundamental role in economic analyses of health and safety risks and serves as the principal benefit measure for government risk regulation policies. The hedonic models that have been employed to generate empirical...

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