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The Mortality and Medical Costs of Air Pollution: Evidence from Changes in Wind Direction by Deryugina, Tatyana, Heutel, Garth, Miller, Nolan H., Molitor, David, Reif, Julian

“…We estimate the causal effects of acute fine particulate matter exposure on mortality, health care use, and medical costs among the US elderly using Medicare…”
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Market Integration, Demand, and the Growth of Firms: Evidence From a Natural Experiment in India by Jensen, Robert, Miller, Nolan H.

“…In many developing countries, the average firm is small, does not grow, and has low productivity. Lack of market integration and limited information on…”
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Giffen Behavior and Subsistence Consumption by Jensen, Robert T., Miller, Nolan H.

“…This paper provides the first real-world evidence of Giffen behavior, i.e., upward sloping demand. Subsidizing the prices of dietary staples for extremely poor…”
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DO CONSUMER PRICE SUBSIDIES REALLY IMPROVE NUTRITION? by Jensen, Robert T., Miller, Nolan H.

“…Many developing countries use food-price subsidies or controls to improve nutrition. However, subsidizing goods on which households spend a high proportion of…”
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Emergency Visits for Thunderstorm-Related Respiratory Illnesses Among Older Adults by Zou, Eric, Worsham, Christopher, Miller, Nolan H, Molitor, David, Reif, Julian, Jena, Anupam B

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ICME Approach to Determining Critical Pore Size of IN718 Produced by Selective Laser Melting by Sangid, Michael D., Ravi, Priya, Prithivirajan, Veerappan, Miller, Nolan A., Kenesei, Peter, Park, Jun-Sang

“…A degree of porosity is expected in additively manufactured (AM) materials. To aid in the qualification of AM materials, the smallest pore size that results in…”
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Eliciting Informative Feedback: The Peer-Prediction Method by Miller, Nolan, Resnick, Paul, Zeckhauser, Richard

“…Many recommendation and decision processes depend on eliciting evaluations of opportunities, products, and vendors. A scoring system is devised that induces…”
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Reimagining Hair Science: A New Approach to Classify Curly Hair Phenotypes via New Quantitative Geometric and Structural Mechanical Parameters by Gaines, Michelle K., Page, Imani Y., Miller, Nolan A., Greenvall, Benjamin R., Medina, Joshua J., Irschick, Duncan J., Southard, Adeline, Ribbe, Alexander E., Grason, Gregory M., Crosby, Alfred J.

“…Conspectus Hair is a natural polymeric composite primarily composed of tight macrobundles of keratin proteins, which are highly responsive to external stimuli,…”
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A buckling mechanics approach to elastic modulus determination of glassy polymer films by Rencheck, Mitchell L., Rodriguez, Ricardo, Miller, Nolan A., Davis, Chelsea S.

“…ABSTRACT Column buckling mechanics were examined as a technique to determine the modulus of glassy polymer films that fail at very low strains in tension. As…”
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What Does Health Reform Mean for the Health Care Industry? Evidence from the Massachusetts Special Senate Election by Al-Ississ, Mohamad M., Miller, Nolan H.

“…We exploit the surprise election of Republican Scott Brown to the US Senate to evaluate the market's assessment of the impact of the recent US health reform…”
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impact of food price increases on caloric intake in China by Jensen, Robert T, Miller, Nolan H

“…World food prices have increased dramatically in recent years. We use panel data from 2006 to examine the impact of these increases on the consumption and…”
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The Effects of Environmental Regulation on Technology Diffusion: The Case of Chlorine Manufacturing by Snyder, Lori D., Miller, Nolan H., Stavins, Robert N.

“…The paper studies the effect of regulation on technological change in the chlorine manufacturing industry by focusing on the diffusion of membrane-cell…”
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The Equivalence of Price and Quantity Competition with Delegation by Miller, Nolan H., Pazgal, Amit I.

“…In a two-stage differentiated-products oligopoly model, profit-maximizing owners first choose incentive schemes in order to influence their managers' behavior…”
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Strategic trade and delegated competition by Miller, Nolan H., Pazgal, Amit

“…Strategic trade theory has been criticized on the grounds that its predictions are overly sensitive to modeling assumptions. Applying recent results in duopoly…”
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Insurer-provider integration, credible commitment, and managed-care backlash by Miller, Nolan H.

“…People distrust managed care organizations (MCOs) more than traditional health plans. This phenomenon has become known as “managed-care backlash.” Using a…”
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Pricing health benefits: A cost-minimization approach by Miller, Nolan H.

“…We study the role of health benefits in an employer's compensation strategy, given the overall goal of minimizing total compensation cost (wages plus…”
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Mechanism design with multidimensional, continuous types and interdependent valuations by Miller, Nolan H., Pratt, John W., Zeckhauser, Richard J., Johnson, Scott

“…We consider the mechanism design problem when agents’ types are multidimensional and continuous, and their valuations are interdependent. If there are at least…”
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Relative performance as a strategic commitment mechanism by Miller, Nolan, Pazgal, Amit

“…Can managers' personality traits be of use to profit maximizing firm owners? We investigate the case where managers have a variety of attitudes toward relative…”
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Budget or target: the choice between input and output strategies by Miller, Nolan H., Pazgal, Amit I.

“…In many competitive environments, players need to commit either to a specific goal they will achieve (an output target) or to the resources they are willing to…”
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Screening budgets by Wagner, Alexander F., Miller, Nolan H., Zeckhauser, Richard J.

“…How should an organization’s center allocate resources to units under its control which are better informed? Even with conscientious productivity reviews,…”
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