Examines the importance of good administrative data to Medicaid and SCHIP programs, as well as the cost to states of not improving their administrative files. Also suggests ways that states can improve their data files to make them better tools for guiding policy decisions.

Understanding people and how they factor into complex information technology (IT) implementations is critical to reversing the growing trend of costly IT implementation failures. Accordingly, this article presents an approach to dissecting the social and organizational influences impacting...

This article introduces the event study method from finance and economics and applies it to the Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984. This deregulatory action was believed to have benefited the cable industry. However, results suggest a tempered view of its economic impact. Although cable...