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Labor Supply Responses to Marginal Social Security Benefits: Evidence from Discontinuities
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2009)
A key question for Social Security reform is whether workers currently perceive
the link on the margin between the Social Security taxes they pay and the Social Security
benefits they will receive. We estimate the effects ...
Patient Cost-Sharing and Hospitalization Offsets in the Elderly
(American Economic Association, 2009)
In the Medicare program, increases in cost sharing by a supplemental insurer can exert financial externalities. We study a policy change that raised patient cost sharing for the supplemental insurer for retired public ...
Health Insurance Exchanges — Making the Markets Work
(Massachusetts Medical Society, 2009)
Americans purchase health insurance in various ways. Some buy individual policies. For them, medical underwriting is common, and preexisting conditions can preclude, limit, or dramatically increase the cost of coverage. ...
Uncomfortable Arithmetic — Whom to Cover versus What to Cover
(Massachusetts Medical Society, 2009)
Much of the current debate about expanding health insurance coverage avoids addressing an uncomfortable trade-off: with a limited budget, making benefits more generous means being able to cover fewer people. Moreover, ...
The Forward Market in Emerging Currencies: Less Biased than in Major Currencies
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2009)
Many studies have replicated the finding that the forward rate is a biased predictor of the future change in the spot exchange rate. Usually the forward discount actually points in the wrong direction. But, at least until ...
Securing Human Rights Intellectually: Philosophical Inquiries about the Universal Declaration
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2009)
This article is intended for an edited volume in the series "The New Harvard Bookshelf: Towards a Liberal Education for the 21st Century." The purpose of that collection is to bring together articles that capture the basic ...
The Place Premium: Wage Differences for Identical Workers Across the US Border
(2009)
We estimate the “place premium”—the wage gain that accrues to foreign workers who arrive to work in the United States. First, we estimate the predicted, purchasing-power adjusted wages of people inside and outside the ...
The Trouble with Cases
(2009)
For several decades now a debate has raged about policy-making by litigation. Spurred by the way in which tobacco, environmental, and other litigation has functioned as an alternative form of regulation, the debate asks ...
On Global Currencies
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2009)
I approach the state of global currency issues by identifying eight concepts that I see as having recently “peaked” and eight more that I see as currently rising in relevance. Those that I see as having already seen their ...
On the Measurement of Poverty Dynamics
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2009)
This paper introduces a family of multi-period poverty measures derived from commonly used static poverty measures. Our measures trade-off poverty levels and changes (gains and losses) over time, and are consistent with ...