The conventional wisdom in health economics is that idiosyncratic features of
the healthcare sector leave little scope for market forces to…
Today in the United States, producing higher scores on
standardized tests of academic skills is the dominant goal of teacher
professional…
This paper brings a new perspective to the analysis of the Mariel supply shock,
revisiting the question and the data armed with the…
Why should developing countries buy expensive catastrophe (CAT) insurance? Abstracting from risk aversion or hedging motives, we find that…
DNA ancestry testing may seem frivolous, but it points to two crucial questions: First, what is the relationship, if any, between biology…
Two of the best known randomized trials in health economics are described in detail in this chapter, the RAND Health Insurance Experiment…
We begin with a typology of Americans’ understanding of the links between genetic inheritance and racial or ethnic groups. The typology has…
This paper examines the evolution of immigrant earnings in the United States between 1970 and 2010. There are cohort effects not only in…
School choice systems aspire to delink residential location and school
assignments by allowing children to apply to schools outside of…
Americans have generally wanted much the same things taught in their public schools. Elementary students should learn three “R’sâ€â€”reading…