Topic: Accountable Care Organizations
The Behavior of Companies Straining to Meet Earnings Forecasts
Plus: home buyers after they collect big equity gains, math and gender, and who votes
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Alternative vaccination points, the curious case of improved sales forecasts and an overlooked stock-price predictor
Are Muni Bonds Perfectly Priced?
Also: Why some civilizations grew enormously, artificial intelligence and stock prices, and what moves home prices in Boise
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Investing on margin, a nudge to jump-start retirement savings, how ad agencies lost their 15% commission
Can Contracts Optimize Both Health Care and Clinician Pay?
Accountable care organizations can levy penalties against specialists for poor patient outcomes
Faces and Earnings Estimates — and Other Quirks of Business
The true meaning of a bailout, how pay transparency works and whether to take that meeting or not
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TV ad prices, workers who don’t offer productivity suggestions and startups that end up being acquired
Goodbye Plant and Equipment, Hello Software
Round-number bids, tailoring primary care incentives to the health of a state population, and one benefit of industry incumbency
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Daydreaming and poverty, stock traders who divorce, and crowdfunding strategies
How Long Does a Humanitarian Crisis Last?
How to spot fake online reviews and the relationship between herding cultures and violence
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Tax credits for angel investors, the spooky impact of workplace mind-body dissonance and a more effective model for surge pricing
Los Angeles, Long a Laggard in Education, Gaining Ground on Other Major Metros
Younger residents’ schooling boosts the region’s economic prospects
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Headphones and feelings, preventing hospital readmissions, and the relationship between meaning in life and happiness
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How investors react to volatility, the marshmallow test reconsidered and the role of gender in some career advice
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Fake Amazon reviews, cultural norms around gender, and stocks held in Robinhood accounts