Health plans for the poor increasingly limit access to specialty hospitals. We investigate the role of adverse selection in generating this equilibrium among private plans in Medicaid.
The article explores the ways in which pretrial incarceration affects job retention, job-seeking, and relative confidence or lack of confidence in the ability to succeed in getting a job.
Pigouvian taxes and user fees can address environmental externalities and efficiently fund transportation infrastructure, but these policies may place burdens on poorer households.
The share of US residents who were born in Latin America and the Caribbean plateaued recently, after a half century of rapid growth.
Policy with concentrated costs often faces intense localized opposition. Both private and governmental actors frequently use financial compensation to attempt to overcome this opposition.
Credible fact-making for policy demands the same legitimating moves as are required for credible politics.
COVID-19 vaccines are widely available in wealthy countries, yet many people remain unvaccinated.
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has adversely impacted child development and the well-being of caregivers, and such evidence ought to be used to inform public policy decisions.
Reducing Racial Inequality in Crime and Justice: Science, Practice, and Policy synthesizes the evidence on community-based solutions, noncriminal policy interventions, and criminal justice reforms, ch
Despite the widespread need to take leave from work when faced with a caregiving obligation or when welcoming a new child to the family, many workers in the U.S.
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