2025, Master Lecture, Edward Miguel, "Cash Transfers, Development and Health: Emerging Lessons from the Kenya General ...

The mergers we study – hospital acquisitions of physician practices – have reshaped the $1 trillion US physician industry, nearly doubling the share of physicians working for hospitals between 2008 ...

Over 22 years, from the launch of the NBER Retirement Research Center in 2003, through the addition of the NBER Disability Research Center in 2012 and their consolidation into the NBER Retirement and ...

Targeting distributional impacts is gaining importance in the design of environmental policy. To achieve this, policy makers are adopting advances in air transport models to predict the benefits of ...

The Social Security Administration (SSA) convened its 2022 Retirement and Disability Research Consortium (RDRC) Meeting virtually on August 45. The meeting was organized by the NBER RDRC and featured ...

This paper evaluates Laffer curves produced by reforms to nonlinear income taxes, focusing on individual taxpayers. A reform puts a taxpayer on the “wrong” side of the Laffer curve if it increases ...

Hence, a manager who wants to maximize her EPS (earnings per share) should only invest in accretive projects that have income yields above the firm’s cheapest financing option. This is the max EPS ...