We use credit reports, survey data, and two natural experiments that increase health insurance coverage—Medicare eligibility and the Affordable Care Act's Under 26 provision—to study the financial protection provided by health insurance.

The existence of a home court advantage is one of the most durable empirical patterns in all of sports. Yet, the sociological and psychological mechanisms explaining its strength and persistence remain a mystery in large part because of well-known challenges with statistical identification. We...

We create a state-level measure of economic and police uncertainty during the 2007-2009 recession. Despite claims in the literature, the variation in this uncertainty measure matches the cross-sectional distribution of unemployment outcomes in this period. This relationship is robust to numerous...

Long-term data show that the dynamic efficiency condition r>g holds when g is represented by the average growth rate of real GDP if r is the average real rate of return on equity, E(re ), but not if r is the risk-free rate, rf .

This paper examines the impact of cargo preference requirements, which create market power for domestic shipping companies, on the effectiveness of USAID's Food for Peace emergency food aid program.

Jorge Mario Bergoglio, since becoming Pope Francis in March 2013, is focusing on martyrdom in the Roman Catholic Church.

The authors find that the shift reflects a combination of increased bank demand for jumbo loans and higher government-sponsored enterprise g-fees.

A key issue for the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is whether non-pharmaceutical public-health interventions (NPIs) retard death rates. File-URL https://www.aei.org/research-products/working-paper/non-pharmaceutical-interventions-and-mortality-in-us-cities-during-the-great-influenza-pandemic-1918-1919/

Studies relying upon household survey data have concluded that public school teachers receive substantially lower salaries than comparably-educated private sector workers. However, any given level of formal educational attainment found in household surveys can encompass a wide range of skills as...

Gating indicators recommended by CDC for phased reopening following COVID-19 shutdowns include "sustained decreases" or a "downward trajectory...over a 14-day period" in public health statistics.