The Consequences of Health Care Privatization: Evidence from Medicare Advantage Exits

By Mark Duggan, Jonathan Gruber, and Boris Vabson

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, February 2018

There is considerable controversy over the use of private insurers to deliver public health insurance benefits. We investigate the consequences of patients enrolling in Medicare Advantage (MA), privately managed care organizations that compete with the tr...

Identifying the Harm of Manipulable School-Choice Mechanisms

By Umut Dur, Robert G. Hammond, and Thayer Morrill

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, February 2018

An important but under-explored issue in student assignment procedures is heterogeneity in the level of strategic sophistication among students. Our work provides the first direct measure of which students rank schools following their true preference orde...

The New York Times writes about the gender imbalance in economics

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February 02, 2018

Justin Wolfers cites CSWEP report in column about the plateauing of women entering the field.

Macroeconomic Effects of Financial Shocks

By Urban Jermann and Vincenzo Quadrini

American Economic Review, February 2012

We document the cyclical properties of US firms' financial flows and show that equity payout is procyclical and debt payout is countercyclical. We then develop a model with debt and equity financing to explore how the dynamics of real and financial variab...

Moving up in the world

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New research explains the link between redistributive preferences and perceptions of social mobility.

Home security

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January 25, 2018

How much did unemployment benefits stabilize the housing market during the Great Recession?

Cross-Section Econometrics View Part 3

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Cross-Section Econometrics View Part 9

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Behavioral Finance View Part 1

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Behavioral Finance View Part 2

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Behavioral Finance View Part 3

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Behavioral Finance View Part 4

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Behavioral Finance View Part 5

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Behavioral Finance View Part 6

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Behavioral Finance View Part 7

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