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A note on identification of discrete choice models for bundles and binary games
(2017)We study nonparametric identification of single-agent discrete choice models for bundles (without requiring bundle-specific prices) and of binary games of complete information. We show that these two models are quite similar ... -
A Pseudo-Market Approach to Allocation with Priorities
(2018)We propose a pseudo-market mechanism for no-monetary-transfer allocation of indivisible objects based on priorities such as those in school choice. Agents are given token money, face priority-specific prices, and buy ... -
Accounting for Mathematics Performance of High School Students in Mexico: Estimating a Coordination Game in the Classroom
(2018)This paper estimates a model of the effort decisions of students and teachers in a classroom setting to understand the performance of Mexican high school students on curriculum-based examinations. The model allows for ... -
Adherence to treatment guidelines and survival for older patients with stage II or III colon cancer in Texas from 2001 through 2011
(2018)BACKGROUND: Treatment guidelines for colon cancer recommend colectomy with lymphadenectomy of at least 12 lymph nodes for patients with stage I to stage III disease as surgery adherence (SA) and adjuvant chemotherapy for ... -
Aligning Learning Incentives of Students and Teachers: Results from a Social Experiment in Mexican High Schools
(2015)This paper evaluates the impact of three different performance incentive schemes using data from a social experiment that randomized 88 Mexican high schools with over 40,000 students into three treatment groups and a control ... -
An Anatomy of U.S. Personal Bankruptcy under Chapter 13
(2017)We build a structural model that captures salient features of personal bankruptcy under Chapter 13. We estimate our model using a novel data set that we construct from bankruptcies filed in Delaware between 2001 and 2002. ... -
Balancing act: weighing the factors affecting the taxation of capital income in a small open economy
(2016)Alternative economic theories yield dramatically different prescriptions for optimal capital taxation in small open economies. On the one hand, foreign firms, including those with investments that yield firm-specific ... -
Balancing supply and demand under bilateral constraints
(2012)In a moneyless market, a nondisposable homogeneous commodity is reallocated between agents with single-peaked preferences. Agents are either suppliers or demanders. Transfers between a supplier and a demander are feasible ... -
Comparing Utilization and Costs of Care in Freestanding Emergency Departments, Hospital Emergency Departments, and Urgent Care Centers
(2017)Study objective: We compare utilization, price per visit, and the types of care delivered across freestanding emergency departments (EDs), hospital-based EDs, and urgent care centers in Texas. Methods: We analyzed insurance ... -
Competition in Business Taxes and Public Services: Are Production-Based Taxes Superior to Capital Taxes?
(2015)Although most of the tax competition literature focuses on the provision of local public services to households, several papers analyze tax competition when capital taxes are used to finance local public services provided ... -
Decomposing Trends in Inequality in Earnings into Forecastable and Uncertain Components
(2016)A substantial empirical literature documents the rise in wage inequality in the American economy. It is silent on whether the increase in inequality is due to components of earnings that are predictable by agents or whether ... -
Dynamic Agenda Setting
(2017)A party in power can address a limited number of issues. What issues to address--the party's agenda--has dynamic implications because it affects what issues will be addressed in the future. We analyze a model in which the ... -
Early life height and weight production functions with endogenous energy and protein inputs
(2016)We examine effects of protein and energy intakes on height and weight growth for children between 6 and 24 months old in Guatemala and the Philippines. Using instrumental variables to control for endogeneity and estimating ... -
The Effect of Punishment Severity on Plea Bargaining
(2012-08)This study examines whether criminal suspects facing more severe punishments are more likely to go to trial. Sample selection makes it difficult to obtain valid proxies for severity; for instance, I expect severity to be ... -
The effects of efficiency and TFP growth on pollution in Europe: a multistage spatial analysis
(2014)It is common in efficiency studies which analyse the environment for pollution to form part of the production technology. Pollution therefore affects efficiency and the TFP growth decomposition. As an alternative approach ... -
Employment among Patients Starting Dialysis in the United States
(2018)BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Patients with ESRD face significant challenges to remaining employed. It is unknown when in the course of kidney disease patients stop working. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS: We ... -
Estimating matching games with transfers
(2018)I explore the estimation of transferable utility matching games, encompassing many‐to‐many matching, marriage, and matching with trading networks (trades). Computational issues are paramount. I introduce a matching maximum ... -
Fairness Incentives for Myopic Agents
(2017)We consider settings in which we wish to incentivize myopic agents (such as Airbnb landlords, who may emphasize short-term profits and property safety) to treat arriving clients fairly, in order to prevent overall ... -
Frontier efficiency, capital structure, and portfolio risk: An empirical analysis of U.S. banks
(2018)Firm’ ability to effectively allocate capital and manage risks is the essence of their production and performance. This study investigated the relationship between capital structure, portfolio risk levels and firm performance ... -
Genericity and Robustness of Full Surplus Extraction
(2013)We study whether priors that admit full surplus extraction (FSE) are generic, an issue that becomes a gauge to evaluate the validity of the current mechanism design paradigm. We consider the space of priors on the universal ...
