In addition to its impact on public health, COVID-19 has had a major impact on the economy. To shed light on how COVID-19 is affecting…
This note lays out the basic Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) epidemiological model of contagion, with a target audience of economists…
Insurance markets often feature consumer sorting along both an extensive margin (whether to buy) and an intensive margin (which plan to buy…
Gregory Bruich received his Ph.D. from the Department of Economics at Harvard University. His research is in public economics. He was…
The mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla, resulted in the deaths of 17 people.
Tragically, from January…
A new paper offers a prescription for Medicare’s costly drug problem.
Drug pricing in the U.S. is a persistently vexing policy problem. While there is agreement among many policy analysts that supra…
Farayi Chipungu is an Adjunct Lecturer at The Harvard Kennedy School of Government and teaches courses at Harvard Law School. Her focus is…