James J Choi,David Laibson,Brigitte C Madrian
James J Choi
We identify employees at seven companies whose 401(k) investment choices are dominated because they are contributing less than the employer matching contribution threshold despite being vested in their match and being able to make penalty-f...
James J Heckman,Paul A Lafontaine
James J Heckman
This paper applies a unified methodology to multiple data sets to estimate both the levels and trends in U.S. high school graduation rates. We establish that (a) the true rate is substantially lower than widely used measures; (b) it peaked ...
David C Grabowski,Jonathan Gruber,Joseph J Angelelli
David C Grabowski
A long-standing assumption among economists is that nursing home quality is common across Medicaid and private-pay patients within a shared facility. However, there has been only limited empirical work addressing this issue. Using a unique ...
Daniel J Benjamin,Jesse M Shapiro
Daniel J Benjamin
We showed 10-second, silent video clips of unfamiliar gubernatorial debates to a group of experimental participants and asked them to predict the election outcomes. The participants' predictions explain more than 20 percent of the variation...
Melissa S Kearney,Phillip B Levine
Melissa S Kearney
We examine the impact of recent state-level Medicaid policy changes that expanded eligibility for family planning services to higher-income women and to Medicaid clients whose benefits would expire otherwise. We show that the income-based p...
A Bartel,P Taubman
A Bartel