Every time the International Monetary Fund awaits a new managing director, critics complain that it is past time for the appointee to come…
Nuclear terrorism is a real and urgent threat. Given the potentially catastrophic consequences, even a small probability of terrorists…
At the Cold War’s end, some pundits proclaimed that “geo-economics” had replaced geopolitics. Economic power would become the key to…
Bad politics are filled with hoopla and hyper-charged rhetoric, while good government is often dull, so anyone can be forgiven for missing…
Medicare bases its risk adjustment method for Medicare Advantage plan payment on the relative costs of treating various diagnoses in…
We examine provider responses to the Medicare inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF) prospective payment system (PPS), which…
The R package Synth implements synthetic control methods for comparative case studies designed to estimate the causal effects of policy…
Context: Twenty-five years ago, private insurance plans were introduced into the Medicare program with the stated dual aims of (1) giving…
James M. Quane and William Julius Wilson describe the promising results of the
Harlem Children’s Zone, why the current backlash against the…
What happens when speakers try to “dodge” a question they would rather not answer by answering a different question? In 4 studies, we show…