The Effects of Low Income Housing Tax Credit Developments on Neighborhoods [0.03%]
关于低收入住房税收信用计划对社区影响的研究报告摘要
Nathaniel Baum-Snow,Justin Marion
Nathaniel Baum-Snow
This paper evaluates the impacts of new housing developments funded with the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC), the largest federal project based housing program in the U.S., on the neighborhoods in which they are built. A discontinuity...
WIC in Your Neighborhood: New Evidence on the Impacts of Geographic Access to Clinics [0.03%]
邻里胜过远方：门诊部地理可达性对补充营养援助计划的影响评估
Maya Rossin-Slater
Maya Rossin-Slater
A large body of evidence indicates that conditions in-utero and health at birth matter for individuals' long-run outcomes, suggesting potential value in programs aimed at pregnant women and young children. This paper uses a novel identifica...
Steven Nyce,Sylvester J Schieber,John B Shoven et al.
Steven Nyce et al.
The strong link between health insurance and employment in the United States may cause workers to delay retirement until they become eligible for Medicare at age 65. However, some employers extend health insurance benefits to their retirees...
Darius Lakdawalla,Neeraj Sood
Darius Lakdawalla
Monopolies appear throughout health care. We show that health insurance operates like a conventional two-part pricing contract that allows monopolists to extract profits without inefficiently constraining quantity. When insurers are free to...
Market Size and Innovation: Effects of Medicare Part D on Pharmaceutical Research and Development [0.03%]
市场与创新：Medicare药物福利计划对制药业研发的影响
Margaret E Blume-Kohout,Neeraj Sood
Margaret E Blume-Kohout
Recent evidence suggests that Medicare Part D increased prescription drug use among seniors, and increased pharmaceutical firms' revenues from sales. Previous studies also indicate that increases in market size induce pharmaceutical innovat...
Consumption, Retirement and Social Security: Evaluating the Efficiency of Reform that Encourages Longer Careers [0.03%]
消费、退休和社保：评估促进延迟退休改革的效率
John Laitner,Dan Silverman
John Laitner
This paper proposes and analyzes a Social Security reform in which individuals no longer face the OASI payroll tax after, say, age 54 or a career of 34 years, and their subsequent earnings have no bearing on their benefits. We first estimat...
The Impact of Health Care Reform on Hospital and Preventive Care: Evidence from Massachusetts(☆) [0.03%]
医疗改革对医院和预防护理的影响——来自马萨诸塞州的证据
Jonathan T Kolstad,Amanda E Kowalski
Jonathan T Kolstad
In April 2006, Massachusetts passed legislation aimed at achieving near-universal health insurance coverage. The key features of this legislation were a model for national health reform, passed in March 2010. The reform gives us a novel opp...
Policy Effects in Hyperbolic vs. Exponential Models of Consumption and Retirement [0.03%]
消费和退休的双曲模型与指数模型的政策效应比较
Alan L Gustman,Thomas L Steinmeier
Alan L Gustman
This paper constructs a structural retirement model with hyperbolic preferences and uses it to estimate the effect of several potential Social Security policy changes. Estimated effects of policies are compared using two models, one with hy...
Jacob Glazer,Thomas G McGuire
Jacob Glazer
Changing health insurance coverage for one service may affect use of other insured services. When improving coverage for one service reduces use of another, the savings are referred to as "offset effects." For example, costs of better cover...
AIDS Treatment and Intrahousehold Resource Allocation: Children's Nutrition and Schooling in Kenya [0.03%]
艾滋病治疗与家庭内资源分配：肯尼亚儿童的营养和上学问题
Joshua Graff Zivin,Harsha Thirumurthy,Markus Goldstein
Joshua Graff Zivin
The provision of antiretroviral medications is a central component of the response to HIV/AIDS and consumes substantial public resources from around the world, but little is known about this intervention's impact on the welfare of children ...