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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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Why American elections are flawed (and how to fix them)
Norris, Pippa - 2016
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Does it matter if statistical agencies frame the month's CPI report on a 1-month or 12-month basis?
Frankel, Jeffrey A.; Saiki, Ayako - 2016 - Exploratory draft
When the US Bureau of Labor Statistics releases new numbers, in theory it should make no difference whether the press release emphasizes the most recent 1-month number, which is what it does, or the 12-month number, as many other countries’ statistical agencies do. This paper offers the...
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The labor supply of undocumented immigrants
Borjas, George J. - 2016
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The United States and the European refugee crisis : standing with allies
Ignatieff, Michael; Keeley, Juliette; Ribble, Betsy; … - 2016
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