This paper examines the labor market effects of state health insurance mandates that increase the cost of employing a demographically identifiable group. State mandates requiring that health insurance plans cover infertility treatment raise the relative cost of insuring older women of...

Recent research has found mixed results of the effects of health insurance mandates on outcomes such as labor supply, wages, and even insurance premium costs. This paper considers the labor market effects of mandates that raise the cost of employing a demographically identifiable group. Whether...

Charters represent an expansion of public school choice, offering free, publicly funded educational alternatives to traditional public schools. One relatively unexplored research question concerning charter schools asks whether charter schools are more efficient suppliers of educational services...