This paper estimates the effect of Chapter 13 bankruptcy protection on financial health using a new data set linking bankruptcy filings to…
This article reviews the design of environmental
markets for pollution control over the past 30 years,
and identifies key market-design…
Differences in patient characteristics across trials may bias efficacy estimates from indirect treatment comparisons. To address this issue…
The past thirty years have seen a dramatic decline in the rate of income convergence across states and in population flows to high-income…
For decades, fears of energy scarcity drove American energy diplomacy. The dependence of the global economy on oil, and America’s need to…
The labor market increasingly rewards social skills. Between 1980 and 2012, jobs requiring high levels of social interaction grew by nearly…
In the 1960s, public support for Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), a federal program that provided cash benefits to eligible…
Consumer search serves productive roles in an economy with multiple goods. In equilibrium, search promotes the sorting of consumers among…
Many organizations have budgets that expire at the end of the fiscal year and may face incentives to rush to spend resources on low-quality…
Through an evaluation of the 2009 Recovery Act's State Energy Efficient Appliance Rebate Program, this paper examines consumers' response…