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- Urgent Care Centers and the Demand for Non-Emergent Emergency Department Visits -- by Lindsay Allen, Janet R. Cummings, Jason HockenberryUrgent care centers (UCCs) are a cost-efficient substitute to the emergency department (ED) for non-emergent conditions, but no study has identified their impact on ED demand. We address this gap using a novel strategy that exploits daily UCC operating times in a differencing framework. After UCCs close each day, local non-emergent ED visits increase by […]
- Does Scientific Progress Affect Culture? A Digital Text Analysis -- by Michela Giorcelli, Nicola Lacetera, Astrid MarinoniWe study the interplay between scientific progress and culture through text analysis on a corpus of about eight million books, with the use of techniques and algorithms from machine learning. We focus on a specific scientific breakthrough, the theory of evolution through natural selection by Charles Darwin, and examine the diffusion of certain key concepts […]
- Folklore -- by Stelios Michalopoulos, Melanie Meng XueFolklore is the collection of traditional beliefs, customs, and stories of a community, passed through the generations by word of mouth. This vast expressive body, studied by the corresponding discipline of folklore, has evaded the attention of economists. In this study we do four things that reveal the tremendous potential of this corpus for understanding […]
- On the Controversies behind the Origins of the Federal Economic Statistics -- by Hugh RockoffAlthough attempts to measure trends in prices, output, and employment can be traced back for centuries, in the main the origins of the U.S. federal statistics are to be found in bitter debates over economic policy, ultimately debates over the distribution of income, at the end of the nineteenth century and during the world wars […]