We evaluate the success of Brazil's Corregedoria-Geral da União's (CGU) anti-corruption program in fostering better outcomes in the health sector using panel data from 5560 Brazilian municipalities over the period from 2000 to 2011. Since 2003, the program has randomly selected municipalities...

The Oregon Health Plan has been called a “bold experiment” designed to expand health insurance to Oregon’s low- income residents. It sought simultaneously to expand coverage, control costs, and foster provider participation. However, like the experimental drug that performs no better than...

The Affordable Care Act includes taxes on medical providers and insurance companies — taxes that make healthcare more expensive. As MIT Professor Jonathan Gruber (one of the ACA's architects) said, the “lack of transparency” of these obscure taxes “is a huge political advantage.” This...

We provide the first quasi-experimental evidence on the relationship between cigarette taxes and sexual minority adult smoking by studying individuals in same-sex households (a large share of whom are in same-sex romantic relationships) from the 1996-2018 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance...

Several cities in the U.S. have implemented taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) in an attempt to improve public health and raise revenue. On July 1, 2017, Oakland, California introduced a tax of one cent per ounce on SSBs. In this paper, we estimate the impact of the tax on retail prices,...