A relatively new field within economics, policy analytics has experienced rapid growth and yielded insights in many disciplines within the profession. Nonetheless, a theoretical framework from which to conceptualize this nascent field has yet to emerge in the literature. This paper introduces a...

Previous research speculates that some regulations are counterproductive in the sense that they increase (rather than decrease) mortality risk. However, few empirical studies have measured the extent to which this phenomenon holds across the regulatory system as a whole. Using a novel US state...

Recent empirical studies estimating the impact of US federal regulations on domestic business activity have reached seemingly contradictory conclusions. When measuring business activity with traditional measures of entrepreneurship (i.e., firm startups and job formation), some researchers...