Notwithstanding concerns about staffing levels and burnout in health care, federal wage and employment data does not support the suggestion…
Which Americans experience the worst infrastructure? What are the costs of living with that infrastructure? We measure road roughness…
Importance: The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) requires Medicare to negotiate prices for some high-spending drugs but exempts drugs approved…
Five groups rank state charter school environments according to their laws, regulations, funding, and other characteristics, but none rank…
We document a sharp rise in gunshots coupled with declining 911 call volume across thirteen major US cities in the aftermath of the murder…
The debate around prescription drug measures in the recently passed U.S. Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which limit some patients’ out-of-…
Are application hassles, or “ordeals,” an effective way to limit public program enrollment? We provide new evidence by studying (removal of…
There are widespread differences in total factor productivity across producers in the U.S. and around the world. To help explain these…
Adverse selection is a classic market failure known to limit or “unravel” trade in insurance markets and many other settings. We show that…
The study of urban and local politics in the United States has long been hindered by a lack of centralized sources of election data. We…