You Are Suffocating Me! Firm-Level Evidence on Crowding Out

Are You Still Following Me?

In this paper, the people tracking system of a mobile shopping assistant based on a SCITOS-G5 platform is explained in detail. The robot has two tasks, to find people requiring assistance and to guide a user to a target without losing contact. For that purpose, a probabilistic model and a Bayesian update scheme have been developed, where data of various sensory systems is merged asynchronously....

Medicaid and crowding out of private insurance: a re-examination using firm level data.

While previous research has identified a relationship between expanded Medicaid eligibility and falling private health insurance coverage, the exact mechanism by which this "crowding out" occurs is largely unexplained. We combine individual and firm-level data to investigate possible responses to the Medicaid expansions by firms and workers. We find no evidence that the expansions affected empl...

Crowding out Effect of Foreign Aid in Selected Developing Countries: Panel Data Evidence

You Validate Me , You like Me , You ’ Re Fun , You

The proposition that similarity breeds attraction has received longstanding theoretical and empirical support. Still, the processes that guide this effect remain relatively unexamined. In this study, with a large sample of college students, we tested four variables proposed in prior literature to theoretically account for the similarity-liking link: consensual validation, certainty of being lik...

Computing Productivity: Firm-Level Evidence

We explore the effect of computerization on productivity and output growth using data from 527 large US firms over 1987-1994. We find that computerization makes a contribution to measured productivity and output growth in the short term (using one year differences) that is consistent with normal returns to computer investments. However, the productivity and output contributions associated with ...