In research conducted in collaboration with Arkey Barnett at the University of Michigan and Meghan Beal at the National Sheriffs’ Association, we investigate the effects of innovative investments in ...

Nursing homes certified by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to provide care and receive public reimbursement through Medicare and Medicaid are subject to mandatory annual inspections.

Medicaid bears over 60 percent of the costs of this assistance, paying $255 billion in 2022 for long-term services and supports (LTSS). In response to these costs, some state Medicaid programs have ...

We build a model that combines (i) heterogeneous households with incomplete markets, and (ii) state-dependent pricing with strategic complementarities by firms, to analyze the effects of large ...

The fertility decline is everywhere in the world today and goes back decades for rich countries. Birthrates have been below replacement in the U.S. and Europe since the mid-1970s. Completed cohort ...

This paper shows that the currency in which traded goods are invoiced has a first-order implication for the short-run impact of tariffs on the economy. If prices are set in terms of producer’s ...

The growing prevalence of cognitive impairment (CI) is one of the main drivers of age-related demand for health and long-term care (LTC). In Spain, CI is estimated to affect 18.5% of Spaniards over 65 ...

We find the chatbot messaging increased students’ final grades and engagement with academic supports, such as tutoring. Treatment effects were generally consistent across student demographics, with ...

We develop a simple and intuitive Pigouvian perspective on optimal trade policy. Our approach unifies a wide range of rationales for taxing trade, from the classical optimal tariff argument to ...

Recently the global economy has experienced several major shocks yet EMEs have been remarkably resilient. Some of this improved performance can be attributed to prudent policies and stronger economic ...

We revisit the classic identification problem of separating supply and demand for a homogeneous good using data from multiple markets. We allow markets to be heterogeneous according to unobservables, ...

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