Health Care in U.S. Correctional Facilities — A Limited and Threatened Constitutional Right
The U.S. Constitution does not guarantee a right to health care.
Research
The Two-Margin Problem in Insurance Markets
Insurance markets often feature consumer sorting along both an extensive margin (whether to buy) and an intensive margin (which plan to buy).
The Efficiency-Equity Trade-off in a Federal System: Local Financing of Schools and Student Achievement
Federalism theorists debate the desirability of funding local services from local revenues or inter-governmental grants.
Reforming to Avoid Reform: Strategic Policy Substitution and the Reform Gap in Policing
Institutional reforms often diverge from substantive problems and societal demands that originally prompted reform, raising questions about democratic responsiveness.
A Randomized Trial of Behavioral Nudges Delivered Through Text Messages to Increase Influenza Vaccination Among Patients With an Upcoming Primary Care Visit
Purpose: To evaluate if nudges delivered by text message prior to an upcoming primary care visit can increase influenza vaccination rates. Design: Randomized, controlled trial. Setting: Two health s
All Minds on Deck? Assessing Distributed Strategic Capacity in Public-Sector Organizations
Networked governance requires public managers to think and act strategically across organizational boundaries.
Estimation of Nonlinear Exchange Rate Dynamics in Evolving Regimes
This paper develops a new econometric framework to estimate and classify exchange rate regimes.
Irrigation and Climate Change: Long-run Adaptation and its Externalities
As the largest user of global water, irrigated agriculture accounts for 20% of global cropland and 40% of food production.
How Commerce Can Save the Climate: The Case for a Green Free Trade Agreement
Crisis looms for the planet. In November 2022, world leaders met in Egypt at the UN’s annual forum on climate change, known as the Conference of the Parties.
Why Are Young Workers Leaving Their Jobs?
The American labor market has experienced dramatic changes since the start of the global COVID-19 pandemic in the early spring of 2020, with historic job losses followed by a sharp employment recovery
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