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…
Policy analyses frequently clash. Their disagreements stem from many sources, including models, empirical estimates, and values such as who…
Neither holding a college major in education nor acquiring a master's degree is correlated with elementary and middle school teaching…
The first book to address children's statelessness and lack of legal status as a human rights issue.
Children are among the most…