The Efficiency of Slacking Off: Evidence from the Emergency Department

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Econometrica

• Publication date

  2015-06-15

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Business, Economics

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  DOI 10.3982/ECTA13565
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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