Education

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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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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...
 

Retirement

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Pension Benefits & Retirement Decisions: Income vs. Price Elasticities (with Dayanand Manoli and Mathis Wagner) (2009)
We separately identify the income and price elasticities in individuals’retirement decisions. We develop a dynamic...