Chapter 1: The Anticipatory Effects of Medicare Part D on Drug Utilization This paper quantifies the anticipatory effects of the passage of Medicare Part D on prescription drug utilization. Part D expanded Medicare to include insurance coverage for prescription drugs for the first time. While...

The past century has seen a tremendous rise in female labor force participation.My dissertation addresses aspects of how the American family has shaped andhas been shaped by rising levels of female labor supply. The first chapter provides anintroduction and discussion. The second chapter...

One competitive-market explanation of interindustry wage differentials that is not challenged by the persistence of these differentials is that they are due to differences across workers in unobserved ability or quality. In contrast, this paper explores the unobserved ability hypothesis by using...