Browsing HKS Faculty Scholarship by Keyword "Public Finance"

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    • Effects of Medicare Payment Reform: Evidence from the Home Health Interim and Prospective Payment Systems 

      Huckfeldt, Peter J; Sood, Neeraj; Escarce, Jose J; Grabowski, David C.; Newhouse, Joseph Paul (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2012)
      Medicare continues to implement payment reforms that shift reimbursement from fee-for-service towards episode-based payment, affecting average and marginal reimbursement. We contrast the effects of two reforms for home ...

    • Evaluation of Jamaica's PATH Conditional Cash Transfer Programme 

      Levy, Dan; Ohls, Jim (Routledge, 2010)
      This paper summarizes the findings of an evaluation of the Programme of Advancement through Health and Education (PATH), a conditional cash transfer programme implemented by the Government of Jamaica. We find that PATH was ...

    • Informal Taxation 

      Olken, Benjamin A.; Singhal, Monica (American Economic Association, 2011)
      Informal payments are a frequently overlooked source of local public finance in developing countries. We use microdata from ten countries to establish stylized facts on the magnitude, form, and distributional implications ...

    • Informal Taxation 

      Olken, Benjamin A.; Singhal, Monica (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2009)
      Informal payments are a frequently overlooked source of local public finance in developing countries. We use microdata from ten countries to establish stylized facts on the magnitude, form, and distributional implications ...

    • Isomorphism and the Limits to African Public Financial Management Reform 

      Andrews, Matthew R. (2009)
      Many reform results fall below expectations in the development arena, especially in the public sector. Do the reforms just need more time to work better, or should we adjust our expectations? In addressing this question, ...

    • A Preliminary Review of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s Clean Energy Package 

      Aldy, Joseph Edgar (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)
      The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act included more than $90 billion in strategic clean energy investments intended to promote job creation and promote deployment of low-carbon technologies. In terms of spending, the ...

    • Why it Worked: Critical Success Factors of a Financial Reform Project in Africa 

      Peterson, Stephen Bovard (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)
      Little is written about the critical success factors that make or break a project implementing a public financial management reform in Africa. Based on the twelve year experience of Harvard’s DSA project which transformed ...