Liability Structure in Small-Scale Finance: Evidence from a Natural Experiment. Shawn Cole, September 2013, Paper. "Microfinance, the…
Brazil's Enigma: Sustaining Long-Term Growth. Laura Alfaro, September 2013, Case. "Over the past decade, Brazil's future as a leading world…
Economic Growth in the Malthusian Era: Evidence from the 1609 Spanish Expulsion of the Moriscos. Eric Chaney, Richard Hornbeck, September…
How do transformative changes in public policy take place? Why do some issues rise to the top of the political agenda, while others are…
Differences in ethical behavior between members of the
upper and lower classes have been at the center of civic debates in
recent years…
We examine provider responses to the
Medicare inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF) prospective payment
system (PPS), which…
We report results from two surveys
of representative samples of Americans with private health insurance.
The first examines how well…
Characterization of the anticipated performance of energy technologies to inform policy decisions increasingly relies on expert elicitation…
Much is known about how to address social problems, but much remains unknown. Here is a plan to help disseminate tested interventions and…
Theory creating and hypothesis testing are both critical components of social science, but the former is ultimately more important. Yet, in…