Unconditional Cash Transfers and Maternal Employment: Evidence from the Baby's First Years Study [0.03%]
无条件现金转移支付与产妇就业：来自婴儿之初研究的证据
Maria Sauval,Greg J Duncan,Lisa A Gennetian et al.
Maria Sauval et al.
How the labor force participation of mothers of young children responds to unconditioned cash support remains an open question in policy debates. Using data from Baby's First Years, a large-scale randomized controlled study, we generate new...
Norma B Coe,David A Rosenkranz
Norma B Coe
Combining capitation with a cap on health care providers' average revenue can reduce allocative inefficiency. But the cap may be undercut by health care providers who churn their patient censuses. We investigate this possibility in the U.S....
Daniel Bauer,Darius Lakdawalla,Julian Reif
Daniel Bauer
We extend the conventional life-cycle framework for valuing health and longevity improvements to a stochastic setting with multiple health states and apply it to data on mortality, quality of life, labor earnings, and medical spending for a...
Public Pensions and Retirement: Evidence from the Railroad Retirement Act [0.03%]
铁路退休条例下的公共养老金与退休问题：来自铁路退休法案的证据
Matthew Pesner
Matthew Pesner
This paper estimates how public pensions affect retirement timing by examining the Railroad Retirement Act of 1937, which replaced private railroad pensions with a national program comparable in many ways to Social Security. Leveraging link...
When Scale and Replication Work: Learning from Summer Youth Employment Experiments [0.03%]
规模和复制的利与弊：暑期青年就业试验带来的启示
Sara B Heller
Sara B Heller
Two sources of treatment heterogeneity can undermine the scale-up and replication of successful human capital interventions: variation in the treatment itself and changes to the population served. This paper combines two new summer youth em...
The Effects of Physician Vertical Integration on Referral Patterns, Patient Welfare, and Market Dynamics [0.03%]
医生纵向一体化对转诊模式、患者福利和市场动态的影响
Christopher M Whaley,Xiaoxi Zhao
Christopher M Whaley
The growth of physician vertical integration raises concerns about distorted referral patterns, higher spending, and market foreclosure. Using 100% Medicare data, we combine reduced-form analysis with a discrete choice model to estimate the...
The Impact of Diversity on Perceptions of Income Distribution and Preferences for Redistribution [0.03%]
多样性对收入分配感知和再分配偏好的影响
Juliana Londoño-Vélez
Juliana Londoño-Vélez
Does socioeconomic diversity affect people's perceptions of the income distribution and their preferences for redistribution? I exploit a financial aid reform that drastically raised the share of low-income students at an elite university i...
Measuring Take-up of the California EITC with State Administrative Data [0.03%]
利用州行政数据衡量加州EITC的使用情况
John Iselin,Taylor Mackay,Matthew Unrath
John Iselin
The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is the largest cash-based means-tested transfer program in the United States. In 2021, 31 million households received $64 billion from the federal EITC. Twenty-eight states also offer eligible taxpayers a...
Prescription Drug Advertising and Drug Utilization: The Role of Medicare Part D [0.03%]
医疗保险药物统筹对处方药广告效果的影响研究
Abby Alpert,Darius Lakdawalla,Neeraj Sood
Abby Alpert
This paper examines how direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) for prescription drugs influences utilization by exploiting a large and plausibly exogenous shock to DTCA driven by the introduction of Medicare Part D. Part D led to larger incr...
Gopi Shah Goda,Evan J Soltas
Gopi Shah Goda
We show that Covid-19 illnesses and related work absences persistently reduce labor supply. Using an event study, we estimate that workers with week-long Covid-19 absences are 7 percentage points less likely to be in the labor force one yea...