We study inference in shift-share regression designs, such as when a regional outcome is
regressed on a weighted average of sectoral shocks, using regional sector shares as …

How much do a manager's interpersonal skills with subordinates, which we call people
management skills, affect employee outcomes? Are managers rewarded for having such …

Bureaucrats implement policy. How important are they for a state's productivity? And do the
trade-offs between policies depend on their effectiveness? Using data on 16 million public …

We evaluate the consequences for patients of being matched to a new primary care provider
due to practice closures. Using an event study and population-level data of patients and …

This paper studies whether team members' past collaboration creates team-specific human
capital and influences current team performance. Using administrative Medicare claims for …

We study how emergency department (ED) doctors respond to incentives to reduce wait
times. We use bunching techniques to study an English policy that imposed strong …

Medical labour markets are important because of their size and the importance of medical
labour in the production of healthcare and in subsequent patient outcomes. We present a …

We study the problem a diagnostic expert (eg, a physician) faces when offering a diagnosis
to a client (eg, a patient) that may be based only on the expert's own diagnostic ability or …

We examine the variation across emergency department (ED) physicians in their resource
use and health outcomes, and the relationship between ED resource use and future …

Police discretion has large potential consequences for public trust and safety; however, little
is known about the extent of this discretion. I show that arrests critically depend on which …