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Health insurers use prior authorization to evaluate the medical necessity of planned medical services. Data challenges have precluded measuring the frequency with which…
I look at prevention through an economic lens and make three main points. First, those advocating preventive measures are often asked how much money a given measure saves. This…
In India, infant mortality among Hindus is higher than among Muslims, and religious differences in sanitation practices have been cited as a contributing factor. To explore…
Au cours des dernières décennies, un accord de plus en plus large s’est fait, dans la théorie politique et les sciences politiques empiriques, pour dire que la démocratie tire en…
One of the more surprising health policy developments in the decade since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was enacted in 2010 has been the steady growth in the market share of the…
Machines increasingly replace people in routine job tasks. The remaining tasks require workers to make open-ended decisions and to have “soft” skills such as problem-solving,…
This chapter summarizes existing evidence on the link between education and innovation and presents open questions for future research. After a brief review of theoretical…
This wide-ranging and illuminating book links the history of business in India to broader global and national trends across three centuries. Tirthankar Roy, a distinguished…
We use the Conference Board’s Help-Wanted Index (HWI) to document how immigrant supply shocks change the number of job vacancies. Our analysis reveals a sizable drop in Miami’s…
We experimentally vary signals and senders to identify which combination will increase vaccine demand among a disadvantaged population in the United States – Black and White men…
