Education

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What Explains the Gender Gap in Financial Literacy? The Role of Household Decision-Making (with Raquel Fonseca, Gema Zamarro, and Julie Zissimopoulos), RAND Working Paper Series (2010)

Research has shown that financial illiteracy is widespread among women, and that many women are...

 

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The Effect of Schooling and Ability on Achievement Test Scores (with Karsten Hansen and James Heckman), Journal of Econometrics (2004)

This paper develops two methods for estimating the effect of schooling on achievement test scores...

 

Health

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Does Disability Insurance Receipt Discourage Work? Using Examiner Assignment to Estimate Causal Effects of SSDI Receipt (with Nicole Maestas and Alexander Strand), RAND Working Paper Series (2011)

We present the first estimates of the causal effect of SSDI receipt on the labor...

 

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Can You Get What You Pay For? Pay-For-Performance and the Quality of Healthcare Providers" (with Richard Frank and Meredith Rosenthal), RAND Journal of Economics (2010)

Despite the popularity of pay-for-performance (P4P) among health policymakers and private insurers as a tool...

 

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Toward a Culture of Consequences: Performance-Based Accountability Systems for Public Services (with Brian Stecher, Frank Camm, Cheryl Damberg, Laura Hamilton, Christopher Nelson, Paul Sorenson, Martin Wachs, Alison Yoh, Gail Zellman, and Kristen Leuschner), RAND Monograph MG-1019 (2010)

Performance-based accountability systems (PBASs), which link incentives to measured performance as a means of improving...