Objective: To examine the relationship between insurance market structure and
health care prices, utilization, and spending. Data Sources…
Medicare Part C, or Medicare Advantage (MA), now almost 30 years old, has generally been viewed as a policy
disappointment. Enrollment…
Why does Islam seem to dominate Egyptian politics, especially when the country's endemic poverty and deep economic inequality would seem to…
Our recent paper (1) shows that, since 2002, obesity prevalence has declined among higher socio-economic status (SES) youth but continued…
The human mind tends to excessively discount the value of delayed rewards relative to immediate ones, and it is thought that "hot"…
Sensible regulatory requirements can reduce illnesses and accidents, protect the environment, and maintain quality of life. But when…
The article argues that increasing direct medical education (DME) does little to offset cost of training physicians as residents pay full…
Despite the growing concern about elections which fail around the world, there has been little systematic understanding of the importance…
In this paper we study the impact of different forms of access obligations on firms’ incentives to migrate from the legacy copper network…
The U.S. school-to-career system is highly developed in some ways and underdeveloped in others. The Pathways vision is that young Americans…