Any incentivec 125 (73.1%) N/A N/A 138 (75.0%) N/A N/A NS Any financial incentive 93 (54.4%) N/A N/A 84 (45.7%) N/A N/A 0.062 Specific amount of incentive 21 (12.3%) 21 (22.6%) N/A 36 (19.6%) 36 (42.9%) N/A 0.042 Nonmonetary incentive (e.g., free medication, treatment, evaluation) 81 (47.4%) 49 (52.7%) 0.086 114 (62.0%) 55 (65.5%) NS 0.004 Number of visits 58 (33.9%) 35 (37.6%) NS 33 (17.9%) 22...

A common view is that there is little correlation between Žrm performance and CEO pay. Using a new Žfteen-year panel data set of CEOs in the largest, publicly traded U. S. companies, we document a strong relationship between Žrm performance and CEO compensation. This relationship is generated almost entirely by changes in the value of CEO holdings of stock and stock options. In addition, we sho...

A recent meeting of leading workers' compensation (WC) researchers was held in Washington, DC to consider ways of improving the use of WC data for injury and illness prevention. Participants identified specific deficiencies that limit the application of WC data for research purposes. For example, commercial insurers are often reluctant to provide claims records to research organizations. Unlike...

Collaborative drug therapy management agreements are a strategy for expanding the role of pharmacists in team-based care with other providers. However, these agreements have not been widely implemented. This study describes the features of existing provider-pharmacist collaborative drug therapy management practices and identifies the facilitators and barriers to implementing such services in co...

Patients with an asbestos-related mesothelioma may be legally entitled to financial compensation. In this context, a physician may be called upon to apportion the contribution of an asbestos containing product or facility where there was asbestos exposure in the development of that individual's mesothelioma. This task is mathematically not simple. It is a complex function of each and the entire...

Nonlinear space-charge effects play an important role in emittance growth in the production of kA electron bunches with a bunch length much smaller than the bunch diameter. We propose a scheme employing the radial third-order component of an electrostatic acceleration field, to fully compensate the nonlinear space-charge effects. This results in minimal transverse root-mean-square emittance. Th...

Using 1998-2005 EXECUCOMP data on Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) CEOs, this study addresses some of the issues that arise when modeling CEO incentive-based compensation. The purpose is to investigate how profit efficiencies are impacted by CEO compensation and their composition of pay packages. Since a disproportionate amount of a REITs expenses are executive compensation related, this iss...

www.philadelphiafed.org to the financial instruments that help guard savings from being eroded by inflation.1 Also, households and firms often write contracts that are stated in dollar amounts (nominal terms). A worker may, for example, sign a contract to work over the upcoming year for a fixed dollar amount. If inflation turns out to be higher than what was expected at the time the contract wa...

This paper studies a new paradigm for improving the attention span of workers in tasks that heavily rely on user’s attention to the occurrence of rare events. Such tasks are highly common, ranging from crime monitoring to controlling autonomous complex machines, and many of them are ideal for crowdsourcing. The underlying idea in our approach is to dynamically augment the task with some dummy (...