Search Results - "Taylor, Lowell J."

Do entry regulations deter entrepreneurship and job creation?: Evidence from recent reforms in Portugal by Branstetter, Lee, Lima, Francisco, Taylor, Lowell J, Venancio, Ana

“…We evaluate the consequences of a recent regulatory reform in Portugal, which substantially reduced the cost of firm entry. Our analysis uses matched…”
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Why do so few women work in New York (and so many in Minneapolis)? Labor supply of married women across US cities by Black, Dan A., Kolesnikova, Natalia, Taylor, Lowell J.

“…This paper documents a little-noticed feature of US labor markets—very large variation in the labor supply of married women across cities. We focus on…”
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When Knowledge Is an Asset: Explaining the Organizational Structure of Large Law Firms by Rebitzer, James B., Taylor, Lowell J.

“…We study the economics of employment relationships in large law firms. Our point of departure is the “property‐rights” approach that emphasizes the centrality…”
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The Impact of the Great Migration on Mortality of African Americans: Evidence from the Deep South by Black, Dan A., Sanders, Seth G., Taylor, Evan J., Taylor, Lowell J.

“…The Great Migration—the massive migration of African Americans out of the rural South to largely urban locations in the North, Midwest, and West—was a landmark…”
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Physician Incentives in Health Maintenance Organizations by Gaynor, Martin, Rebitzer, James B., Taylor, Lowell J.

“…Managed care organizations rely on incentives that encourage physicians to limit medical expenditures, but little is known about how physicians respond to…”
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The Economics of Lesbian and Gay Families by Black, Dan A., Sanders, Seth G., Taylor, Lowell J.

“…In this essay, we provide some statistics about the gay and lesbian population in the United States, and ask if analysis based on economic reasoning can…”
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ARE CHILDREN "NORMAL"? by Black, Dan A., Kolesnikova, Natalia, Sanders, Seth G., Taylor, Lowell J.

“…We examine Becker's (1960) contention that children are "normal." For the cross-section of non-Hispanic white married couples in the United States, we show…”
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Organizational Fragmentation and Care Quality in the U.S. Healthcare System by Cebul, Randall D., Rebitzer, James B., Taylor, Lowell J., Votruba, Mark E.

“…Many goods and services can be readily provided through a series of unconnected transactions, but in health care, close coordination over time and within care…”
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The effect of early-life education on later-life mortality by Black, Dan A., Hsu, Yu-Chieh, Taylor, Lowell J.

“…Many studies link cross-state variation in compulsory schooling laws to early-life educational attainment, thereby providing a plausible way to investigate the…”
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RACIAL DISPARITY IN UNEMPLOYMENT by Ritter, Joseph A., Taylor, Lowell J.

“…In the United States, black workers earn less than their white counterparts and have higher rates of unemployment. Empirical work indicates that most of this…”
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The Methuselah Effect: The Pernicious Impact of Unreported Deaths on Old-Age Mortality Estimates by Black, Dan A., Hsu, Yu-Chieh, Sanders, Seth G., Schofield, Lynne Steuerle, Taylor, Lowell J.

“…We examine inferences about old-age mortality that arise when researchers use survey data matched to death records. We show that even small rates of failure to…”
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Unhealthy Insurance Markets: Search Frictions and the Cost and Quality of Health Insurance by Cebul, Randall D., Rebitzer, James B., Taylor, Lowell J., Votruba, Mark E.

“…We analyze the effect of search frictions in the market for commercial health insurance. Frictions increase insurance premiums (enough to transfer 13.2 percent…”
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Predictive Inference Using Latent Variables with Covariates by Schofield, Lynne Steuerle, Junker, Brian, Taylor, Lowell J., Black, Dan A.

“…Plausible values (PVs) are a standard multiple imputation tool for analysis of large education survey data, which measures latent proficiency variables. When…”
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Gender Wage Disparities among the Highly Educated by Black, Dan A, Haviland, Amelia M, Sanders, Seth G, Taylor, Lowell J

“…We examine gender wage disparities for four groups of college-educated women—black, Hispanic, Asian, and non-Hispanic white—using the National Survey of…”
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Monitoring, Motivation, and Management: The Determinants of Opportunistic Behavior in a Field Experiment by Nagin, Daniel S., Rebitzer, James B., Sanders, Seth, Taylor, Lowell J.

“…Economic models of incentives in employment relationships are based on a specific theory of motivation: employees are "rational cheaters," who anticipate the…”
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Gender wage disparities among the highly educated by Black, Dan A, Haviland, Amelia M, Sanders, Seth G, Taylor, Lowell J

“…We examine gender wage disparities for four groups of college-educated women--black, Hispanic, Asian, and non-Hispanic white--using the National Survey of…”
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Combining forward and backward mortality estimation by Black, Dan A., Hsu, Yu-Chieh, Sanders, Seth G., Taylor, Lowell J.

“…Demographers often form estimates by combining information from two data sources-a challenging problem when one or both data sources are incomplete. A classic…”
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Optimal wages in the market for nurses: An analysis based on Heyes’ model by Taylor, Lowell J.

“…In a recent paper “The economics of vocation or ‘why is a badly paid nurse a good nurse?”’ Anthony Heyes posits a novel adverse selection mechanism whereby the…”
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The role of location in evaluating racial wage disparity by Black, Dan A, Kolesnikova, Natalia, Sander, Seth G, Taylor, Lowell J

“…A standard object of empirical analysis in labor economics is a modified Mincer wage function in which an individual's log wage is a function of education,…”
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