New NBER Research2 September 2020 The Real Effects of Modern Information TechnologiesImplementation of the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system leads to an increase in the level of corporate investment by and an improvement in the performance of value firms, a study by, , and finds.
( ...more... ) 1 September 2020 Electoral Concerns Reduce Restrictive COVID-19 StepsIncumbents who can run for re-election implement less-stringent restrictions to control the COVID-19 pandemic when the election is closer in time, particularly with regard to measures more likely to have a negative economic impact, and find.
( ...more... ) 31 August 2020 Variation in Health Care PricesPrivate insurers pay 37 percent more, and Medicare Advantage 10 percent more, than traditional Medicare for the five most common inpatient diagnoses, a study by , , and finds.
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Limitations on H-1B Visas Cause American MNCs
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Restrictions on high-skilled immigration have made multinational corporations based in the United States more likely to increase employment within their existing foreign affiliates and to open entirely new affiliates, according to research featured in the new edition of The NBER Digest. Also in this issue of the free, monthly Digest are summaries of studies on the post-war effect of US R&D spending during World War II, variation in public and private insurers’ reimbursements to hospitals, differences in US and Western European productivity growth between 1995 and 2005, the impact of the Voting Rights Act on arrests of Black citizens, and the current state of infrastructure investment in the United States.
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2020 Summer Institute Methods Lectures
The 2020 Methods Lectures introduce differential privacy, a method of assessing the trade-off between releasing more-detailed information based on survey responses and protecting respondents' privacy, and illustrate its application in several settings. The lectures and associated slides are available to view online or download.
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How Decision Fatigue and First Impressions Biases
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Forecast accuracy declines over the course of a day as the number of forecasts an analyst has issued increases, and the more forecasts the analyst issues, the more likely those forecasts will reflect herding toward a consensus, according to research featured in the current edition of the NBER Reporter. Also in this issue of the Reporter, NBER affiliates write about making health care decisions in conditions of uncertainty, the impacts of tax credits on corporate behavior, medical spending and savings in elderly households, and research in the NBER's decade-long project on the Economics of Digitization.
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What Can We Learn About COVID-19 Infection Rates
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The summer issue of the Bulletin on Health features two studies that introduce methods for using currently available information to better understand COVID-19 infection rates and the implied infection fatality rates. One paper generates upper and lower bounds on the rates of COVID-19 infection under minimal assumptions, and finds that these bounds are necessarily wide, due to the small proportion of the population that has been tested. The second paper leverages additional assumptions and data, such as travel patterns from the virus epicenters, to infer infection rates. Although the studies take different approaches, they both indicate that infection fatality rates are considerably lower than the fatality rates among confirmed COVID-19 cases. Also featured in this issue of the free Bulletin on Health are a study of the long-term impacts of OxyContin’s reformulation on fatal drug overdoses, a study of the role of Medicaid coverage in reducing infant mortality during flu pandemics, and a profile of NBER research associate Doug Almond.
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