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UNDERSTANDING DOCTOR DECISION MAKING: THE CASE OF DEPRESSION TREATMENT by Currie, Janet M., MacLeod, W. Bentley

“…Treatment for depression is complex, requiring decisions that may involve trade-offs between exploiting treatments with the highest expected value and…”
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Reputations, Relationships, and Contract Enforcement by MacLeod, W. Bentley

“…When the quality of a good is at the discretion of the seller, how can buyers assure that the seller provides the mutually efficient level of quality?…”
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Diagnosing Expertise: Human Capital, Decision Making, and Performance among Physicians by Currie, Janet, MacLeod, W. Bentley

“…Expert performance is often evaluated assuming that good experts have good outcomes. We examine expertise in medicine and develop a model that allows for two…”
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Reputation and school competition by MacLeod, William Bentley, Urquiola Soux, Miguel

“…Stratification is a distinctive feature of competitive education markets that can be explained by a preference for good peers. Learning externalities can lead…”
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Why Does the United States Have the Best Research Universities? Incentives, Resources, and Virtuous Circles by MacLeod, W. Bentley, Urquiola, Miguel

“…Around 1875, the US had none of the world's leading research universities; today, it accounts for the majority of the top-ranked. Many observers cite events…”
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Performance Pay and Wage Inequality by Lemieux, Thomas, MacLeod, W. Bentley, Parent, Daniel

“…An increasing fraction of jobs in the U.S. labor market explicitly pay workers for their performance using bonus pay, commissions, or piece-rate contracts…”
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Reducing partisanship in judicial elections can improve judge quality: Evidence from U.S. state supreme courts by Ash, Elliott, MacLeod, W. Bentley

“…•Nonpartisan processes select higher-quality state judges than partisan processes.•Judge quality is measured by positive citations, for which we provide…”
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Provider practice style and patient health outcomes: The case of heart attacks by Currie, Janet, MacLeod, W. Bentley, Van Parys, Jessica

“…When a patient arrives at the Emergency Room with acute myocardial infarction (AMI), the provider on duty must quickly decide how aggressively the patient…”
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The big sort: College reputation and labor market outcomes by MacLeod, W. Bentley, Riehl, Evan, Saavedra, Juan E, Urquiola, Miguel

“…We explore how college reputation affects the "big sort," the process by which students choose colleges and find their first jobs. We incorporate a simple…”
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First Do No Harm? Tort Reform and Birth Outcomes by Currie, Janet, MacLeod, W. Bentley

“…In the 1980s and 1990s many states adopted tort reforms. It has been argued that these reforms have reduced the practice of defensive medicine arising from…”
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Chirality imprinting and direct asymmetric reaction screening using a stereodynamic Brønsted/Lewis acid receptor by Bentley, Keith W., Proano, Daysi, Wolf, Christian

“…Molecular recognition, activation and dynamic self-assembly with Brønsted and Lewis acids play a central role across the chemical sciences including catalysis,…”
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Intrinsic Motivation in Public Service: Theory and Evidence from State Supreme Courts by Ash, Elliott, MacLeod, W. Bentley

“…This paper provides a theoretical and empirical analysis of the intrinsic preferences of state appellate court judges. We construct a panel data set using…”
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Chitosan: an integrative biomaterial for lab-on-a-chip devices by Koev, S T, Dykstra, P H, Luo, X, Rubloff, G W, Bentley, W E, Payne, G F, Ghodssi, R

“…Chitosan is a naturally derived polymer with applications in a variety of industrial and biomedical fields. Recently, it has emerged as a promising material…”
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Viewpoint: The human capital approach to inference by MacLeod, W. Bentley

“…The purpose of this essay is to discuss two approaches to inference and how "human capital" can provide a way to combine them. The first approach, ubiquitous…”
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Optimal Contracting with Subjective Evaluation by MacLeod, W. Bentley

“…This paper extends the standard principal-agent model to allow for subjective evaluation. The optimal contract results in more compressed pay relative to the…”
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Combining Ecosystem and Single-Species Modeling to Provide Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management Advice Within Current Management Systems by Howell, Daniel, Schueller, Amy M., Bentley, Jacob W., Buchheister, Andre, Chagaris, David, Cieri, Matthew, Drew, Katie, Lundy, Mathieu G., Pedreschi, Debbi, Reid, David G., Townsend, Howard

“…Although many countries have formally committed to Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management (EBFM), actual progress toward these goals has been slow. This paper…”
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If God is everywhere, is God in a black hole? A theology-science discussion on omnipresence by Bentley, Wessel

“…This article explores the question of divine omnipresence in light of the recent visual representations of a black hole. It explores the notion of God's…”
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Contract Form, Wage Flexibility, and Employment by Lemieux, Thomas, MacLeod, W. Bentley, Parent, Daniel

“…We begin with two uncontroversial hypotheses - firm productivity is expensive to measure and employment entails relationship-specific investments. These…”
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Global oil & gas depletion: an overview by Bentley, R.W.

“…The world's production of conventional hydrocarbons will soon decline. Hydrocarbon shortages are inevitable unless radical changes occur in demand, or in the…”
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Technique Article: Tarsal Coalition Resection Using Kirschner Wires Across the Subtalar Joint in a Two-Incision Approach by Edmonds, W. Bentley, Wiley, Kevin, Panas, Kenton

“…Subtalar coalitions are a significant cause of morbidity, especially in the pediatric population. Arthrodesis was considered the standard of care, with…”
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