We study the efficiency and distributional effects of financing universal health-insurance coverage, using a computational general equilibrium model of the United States for 1991, with considerable disaggregation among families. Aggregate efficiency losses (primarily from labor supply...

Examines individual participation in amnesties, both from the point of view of what economic analysis would lead us to expect and on the basis of evidence from actual amnesty programs. Concludes that amnesties are appropriate in easing the transition to enhanced enforcement and seen to generate...

Using data from the Current Population Survey for 1997 and 2001, we estimate the probability that a consumer engages in online shopping. We use variation in sales–tax rates by county to identify the effects of the sales–tax rate in the home county and adjacent counties. We also control for...

We examine the change in the distribution of property tax payments resulting from Michigan’s imposition of a property tax assessment growth cap in 1994. The cap restricts growth in property value for tax purposes to the inflation rate, for those maintaining continuous ownership. Upon sale,...