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Digital Health Support In Treatment For Tuberculosis, E. Yoeli, J. Rathauser, Syon Bhanot, M. K. Kimenye, E. Masini, P. Owiti, D. Rand
Digital Health Support In Treatment For Tuberculosis, E. Yoeli, J. Rathauser, Syon Bhanot, M. K. Kimenye, E. Masini, P. Owiti, D. Rand
Economics Faculty Works
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Structural Vars And The Monetary Transmission Mechanism In Low-Income African Countries, B. G. Li, C. Adam, A. Berg, P. Montiel, Stephen A. O'Connell
Structural Vars And The Monetary Transmission Mechanism In Low-Income African Countries, B. G. Li, C. Adam, A. Berg, P. Montiel, Stephen A. O'Connell
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Structural Vector Autoregression (SVAR) methods suggest the monetary transmission mechanism may be weak and unreliable in many low-income African countries. But are structural VARs identified via short-run restrictions capable of detecting a transmission mechanism when one exists, under research conditions typical of low-income countries (LICs)? Using a small DSGE as our data-generating process, we assess the impact on VAR-based inference of short data samples, measurement error, high-frequency supply shocks, and other features of the LIC environment. The impact of these features on finite-sample bias appears to be relatively modest when identification is valid—a strong caveat, especially in LICs. Nonetheless many …
Does Simple Information Provision Lead To More Diverse Classrooms? Evidence From A Field Experiment On Undergraduate Economics, Amanda Bayer, Syon Bhanot, F. Lozano
Does Simple Information Provision Lead To More Diverse Classrooms? Evidence From A Field Experiment On Undergraduate Economics, Amanda Bayer, Syon Bhanot, F. Lozano
Economics Faculty Works
This paper reports the results of a field experiment involving 2,710 students across nine US colleges, in which faculty provided incoming women and URM students with information about economics. We randomly assign students to one of three conditions: a control (no email messaging), a Welcome treatment (two emails encouraging students to consider enrolling in economics courses), and a Welcome+Info treatment (which added information showcasing the diversity of research and researchers within economics). The Welcome+Info treatment increases the likelihood of completing an economics course in the first semester of college by 3.0 percentage points, nearly 20 percent of the base rate.
Consumer Response To Composite Ratings Of Nursing Home Quality, M. C. Perraillon, R. T. Konetzka, Daifeng He, R. M. Werner
Consumer Response To Composite Ratings Of Nursing Home Quality, M. C. Perraillon, R. T. Konetzka, Daifeng He, R. M. Werner
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Health-care report cards are intended to address information asymmetries and enable consumers to choose providers of better quality. However, the form of the information may matter to consumers. Nursing Home Compare, a website that publishes report cards for nursing homes, went from publishing a large set of indicators to a composite rating in which nursing homes are assigned one to five stars. We evaluate whether the simplified ratings motivated consumers to choose better-rated nursing homes. We use a regression discontinuity design to estimate changes in new admissions six months after the publication of the ratings. Our main results show that …