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Fiscal strategies to help cities recover - and prosper
Goldsmith, Stephen; Stitt, Charles - 2020
Despite robust economies, many local officials entered 2020 already worried about budget balances that looked fragile in the short term and problematic in the long term due to enormous pension and health-care issues. Today, in the wake of COVID-19, clearly federal support is necessary, but it is...
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Revisiting the effect of conditional and unconditional incentives on mail survey response rates
Lasky-Fink, Jessica; Rogers, Todd - 2020
A randomized experiment (N = 3,037) examines the impact of conditional and unconditional monetary incentives on response rates to a mail survey in a contemporary context. This is the first large sample study in 10 years to examine the effect of monetary incentives on survey response. Providing...
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Price-linked subsidies and health insurance markups
Jaffe, Sonia; Shepard, Mark - 2017
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The evolution of health insurer costs in Massachusetts, 2010-12
Ho, Kate; Pakes, Ariel; Shepard, Mark - 2017
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The two margin problem in insurance markets
Geruso, Michael; Layton, Timothy J.; McCormack, Grace; … - 2019
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Estimating the costs and benefits of supported quarantine and isolation in Massachusetts : the missing link in Covid-19 response
Bourdeaux, Margaret; Kaushal, Jessica; Bilmes, Linda; … - 2021
a supported quarantine and isolation program in Massachusetts and to describe a budgeting model to help the state … interviewed public health practitioners working directly with infected individuals through the Massachusetts contact tracing … epidemic in Massachusetts through 2020—to 1.06, this intervention could save $610 million in medical costs, exceeding the …
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Bureaucracies as innovative organizations
Kelman, Steven - 2021
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The "People's Bridge":Popular Sovereignty and the Charles River Bridge Case
Atkinson, Evelyn - 2018
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Fiscal consolidation in America: The policy options
Altshuler, Rosanne; Bosworth, Barry - 2011
This paper is focused on the options for reducing the U.S. fiscal deficit in the aftermath of the financial crisis. The first part of the paper is devoted to an assessment of the economic outlook and the impact of the financial crisis on the medium-term fiscal balance of the federal government....
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Merged Municipalities, Higher Debt: On Free-riding and the Common Pool Problem in Politics
Jordahl, Henrik; Liang, Che-Yuan - 2006
We use the 1952 Swedish municipal amalgamation reform to study free-riding and the common pool problem in politics. We expect municipalities that were affected by the reform to increase their debt in anticipation of a merger, and this effect to be larger if they were merged with many other...
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