on enrollees' characteristics. We model how risk adjustment affects selection and differential payments---the government …'s payments to a firm for covering an individual minus the counterfactual cost had the government directly covered her. We show … thus risk adjustment can raise the total cost to the government of providing the public service. We confirm both selection …

Nearly all prior work on government outsourcing has focused on the contracting firm's incentives. This paper shows how …

the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-early 2022). It focuses on the behavior and performance of government and private sector …

, indicating that most government insiders quickly wear out their welcome, and then drop once the minister is fully entrenched in …

. While a common view is that people should blame the government rather than the political system for bad crisis management …, an opposing view is that dissatisfaction with government performance may cause deeper dissatisfaction with democracy even … instrumental variable design. We find that dissatisfaction with the government, which is equally driven by economic and health …

What political legacy can we expect from the Coronavirus pandemic? Drawing evidence from past epidemics, we find that … to the COVID-19 outbreak. These results imply that the Coronavirus may leave behind a long-lasting political scar on the …

Many government services are provided at the state level such as unemployment insurance, Medicaid, and SNAP. Given the … take a "mystery shopping" approach and make 2,000 phone calls to state government offices. We find substantial …