The Marginal Disutility from Corruption in Social Programs: Evidence from Program Administrators and Beneficiaries
Concerns about fraud in welfare programs are common arguments worldwide against such programs.
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Achieving Universal Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: Addressing Market Failures or Providing a Social Floor?
The United States spends substantially more on health care than most developed countries, yet leaves a greater share of the population uninsured.
Adverse Selection and Network Design Under Regulated Plan Prices: Evidence from Medicaid
Health plans for the poor increasingly limit access to specialty hospitals. We investigate the role of adverse selection in generating this equilibrium among private plans in Medicaid.
Regulatory Incentives for Innovation: The FDA's Breakthrough Therapy Designation
Regulators of new products confront a tradeoff between speeding a new product to market and collecting additional product quality information.
Collective Reputation in Trade: Evidence from the Chinese Dairy Industry
The existence of collective reputation implies an important externality.
How Is the US Pricing Carbon? How Could We Price Carbon?
Economists have for decades recommended that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases be taxed—or otherwise priced—to provide incentives for their reduction.
Stand Out from the Millions: Market Congestion and Information Friction on Global E-Commerce Platforms
We investigate how market congestion and information friction affect firm dynamics and market efficiency in global e-commerce.
Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation
One of our great urbanists and one of our great public health experts join forces to reckon with how cities are changing in the face of existential threats the pandemic has only accelerated.
The Evolving Role of Greenhouse Gas Emission Offsets in Combating Climate Change
As governments, firms, and universities advance ambitious greenhouse gas emission goals, the demand for emission offsets – projects that reduce or remove emissions relative to a counterfactual scenari
Learning How to Build Back Better through Clean Energy Policy Evaluation
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the CHIPS and Science Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act authorized and appropriated unprecedented spending and tax expenditures to decarbonize the Americ
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