The Medicare Advantage (MA) program continues to grow and thrive, despite plan payment cuts imposed through the Affordable Care Act. What…
We consider assets when individuals were last observed prior to death in the
Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and trace assets backwards…
Why should developing countries buy expensive catastrophe (CAT) insurance? Abstracting from risk aversion or hedging motives, we find that…
School choice systems aspire to delink residential location and school
assignments by allowing children to apply to schools outside of…
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We implement a regression discontinuity design using the continuous raw Advanced Placement (AP) exam scores, which are mapped into the…
This article reports the results of an econometric evaluation of the effects of Plan Colombia, the largest US aid package ever received by…
In recent years, a widespread consensus has emerged about the necessity of establishing bridges between quantitative and qualitative…
In the wake of the Great Recession, policymakers and academics have expressed concerns about rising employer skill requirements. Using a…
We document the link between increased levels of economic and policy uncertainty and unemployment at the state-level during the 2007-2009…