Update to VSL Paper

VSL Bid Curves by Subsample

We have an updated version of our paper using Army reenlistment decisions to estimate the value of statistical life (VSL): [PDF] The Heterogeneous Value of a Statistical Life: Evidence from U.S. Army Reenlistment Decisions

New Version of Targeted Subsidies and Market Power

After a year of revision (adding in marginal cost by type, preferences for redistribution, and refocusing the paper to look at distributional effects of targeting with market power), I’m happy to post the updated version: Subsidy Targeting with Market Power

Update to Pakistan Schools Paper

We have just updated our paper, “Delivering Education to the Underserved through a Public-Private Partnership Program in Pakistan.” You can find it here: PPRS_Jan31_2020.pdf.

Paper submitted: Subsidy Targeting with Market Power

My paper with Maria Polyakova, “Subsidy Targeting with Market Power,” is finally under review. A brief synopsis of the paper appeared on Stanford’s front page: https://siepr.stanford.edu/news/entitlement-spending-waste.

New Version of Part D Paper Posted

After a two-year revision, we have posted a new version of our paper, “Subsidy Design in Privately-Provided Social Insurance: Evidence from Medicare Part D.” This paper was formerly titled “The Welfare Effects of Supply-Side Regulations in Medicare Part D.” The two major changes in this version are the use of microdata and the inclusion of […]

New Version of Moment Forests posted

Please find a new version of my paper, “Moment Forests” (formerly “Classification Trees for Heterogeneous Moment-Based Models”), joint with Sam Asher, Denis Nekipelov, and Paul Novosad, located here: Moment Forests. We have submitted the paper for review.

NBER Working Paper W23870

Our development paper looking at the effect of entrepreneur schools in rural Pakistan is now an NBER working paper: http://www.nber.org/papers/w23870.

Pakistani Schooling Project Working Paper Posted

A new working paper is up: “Delivering Education to the Underserved through a Public-Private Partnership Program in Pakistan.” [PDF] Abstract: This study experimentally evaluates the short-term impacts of public per-student subsidies to partnering local entrepreneurs to establish and operate tuition-free, coeducational, private primary schools in educationally underserved villages in Sindh province, Pakistan. Two subsidy structures […]

Model Selection Paper Posted

A brand new paper, “Classification Trees for Heterogeneous Moment-Based Models,” joint with Sam Asher, Denis Nekipelov, and Paul Novosad, has been posted under Working Papers! MomentTrees.pdf

The Welfare Effects of Supply-Side Incentives in Medicare Part D

We have posted a new version of our working paper, “The Welfare Effects of Supply-Side Incentives in Medicare Part D,” (PDF) written jointly with Francesco Decarolis and Maria Polyakova. The new version has extensive changes to the treatment of low-income subsidy enrollees, adjustments to the MA-PD outside option as an endogenous response to changes in the […]