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  • 12 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 12

km of roads in India. We use a difference-in-difference estimation strategy to compare non-nodal districts based upon their distance from the highway system. We find several positive effects for non-nodal districts located 0-10 km from GQ... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Oct 2016
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October 18, 2016

difference-in-difference estimation strategy to compare non-nodal districts based upon their distance from the highway system. For the organized portion of the manufacturing sector, we find that GQ led to improvements in both urban and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Dec 2016
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December 13, 2016

Property Rights Protection, Ownership, and Innovation: Evidence from China By: Fang, Lily, Josh Lerner, and Chaopeng Wu Abstract—Using a difference-in-difference approach, we study how intellectual property right (IPR) protection affects... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

of a U.S. retail chain) to centralized hiring (in this study, by the head office). While centralized hiring can ensure that enough resources are invested in hiring people aligned with company values, it can also neglect the unit managers’ local knowledge. Using View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018

evaluating—and helping to redesign—the posting of restaurant hygiene scores on Yelp.com. Implementing a difference-in-differences strategy, we find that posting restaurant hygiene scores on Yelp leads to a 12% decrease in purchase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 7, 2007

subset of countries. This paper uses a difference-in-difference analysis that compares US equity holdings in affected and unaffected countries. The international investment responses to JGTRRA were substantial and imply an elasticity of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Dec 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

learning from parallel R&D projects in the setting of drug development. Leveraging the biopharmaceutical industry's unique characteristics to overcome barriers to measuring the project-level response to competitor news, I employ a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 2

derive the hypothesis that JGTRRA should lead to a portfolio reallocation by U.S. investors towards equities in tax-favored countries. A difference-in-difference analysis that compares U.S. equity holdings in affected and unaffected... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Feb 2016
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February 16, 2016

relevance of the unit managers' knowledge of local customers, and the unit manager's knowledge of his/her team). We conduct difference-in-differences analyses to examine the effects of centralized hiring on employee turnover. The overall... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Mar 2018
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First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018

of hospital performance, intermediate operational outcomes and inputs. We adopt two econometric approaches: a parametric approach that exploits the movement of CEOs across different hospitals and a non-parametric difference-in-difference... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 18

how TV advertising influences changes in online shopping within two-minute pre/post windows of time. We use non-advertising competitors' online shopping in a difference-in-differences approach to measure the same effects in two-hour... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

ostensive attempt to deter fraud that prompts complaints of selective disenfranchisement. Using a difference-in-differences design on a 1.3-billion-observations panel, we find the laws have no negative effect on registration or turnout... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018

arising from a natural experiment: the introduction of an Illinois policy that enabled communities to select electricity suppliers on behalf of their residents. Using a flexible difference-in-differences matching approach, we estimate a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

values, it can also neglect the unit managers’ knowledge of which individuals would best match local conditions. We use difference-in-differences analyses to examine the effects of a switch from decentralized to centralized hiring at our... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 08 Mar 2016
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March 8, 2016

incentives (i.e., whether participants received regular announcements about the incentives). Salient incentives produced significantly more behavior change and more lasting exercise habits than incentives presented without significant marketing. Through a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

difference-in-differences analyses to examine the effects of a switch from decentralized to centralized hiring at our research site. We find that, on average, centralized hiring does not increase the quality of employee-company matches,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019

source software (OSS) over proprietary software in an attempt to reduce costs creating an unexpected demand shock for OSS. Analysis using the rest of the EU as controls via difference-in-differences and synthetic control frameworks shows... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016

politicians from politically contested areas are also more likely to turn to toxic loans. Using a difference-in-differences methodology, we show that politicians time the election cycle by implementing more transactions immediately before... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Oct 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

of their own family, and utilize a difference-in-difference approach to identify the effect of ultrasound access on intrahousehold outcomes of affected women. I find evidence that greater parental access to sex selection technology at a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20

impact of the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway project on the Indian organized manufacturing sector using enterprise data. The GQ project upgraded the quality and width of 5,846 km of roads in India. We use a difference-in-difference... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne