Will the Opportunity Zone program, America’s largest new place-based policy in decades, generate neighborhood change? We compare single-…
Within the Medicare program, we expected the MA group to exhibit the lowest spending over the years we observed because Banner faced…
The Affordable Care Act expanded Medicaid and increased federal funding for Community Health Centers (CHCs). To examine the role of…
This paper was written in preparation for a talk at the Catholic University of Chile (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) in December…
2019, Paper, "I provide a summary, reflection, and assessment of the current state of economic development in both the policy and academic…
Girl child marriage, a formal union of a female before age 18, and undernutrition remain common in Sub-Saharan Africa. The aim of this…
2019, Book Chapter, "The paper is concerned about the future of state-business relations (SBRs) in the region, and about the potential for…
2019, Paper, "The tension between equality and efficiency presents a cardinal trade-off in scarce resource allocation decisions. Three pre-…
I study the role of aspirations in economic development drawing on the existing theoretical and empirical literature and provide some new…