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Act, this is the first study to do so for Hispanics. We follow a longitudinal sample of individuals who were in the labor …
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The 1996 Immigration Reform and Responsibility Act barred states from giving unlawful residents postsecondary education benefits that states do not offer to U.S. citizens. In contrast to this federal law, several states have passed legislation explicitly allowing undocumented immigrants to pay...
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but narrowed between Hispanics and (non-Hispanic) whites. When the definition of wealth is expanded to incorporate Social … Blacks, and 13.1 percent among Hispanics. As a result, while mean augmented wealth dipped only 1.2 percent among whites, it … fell 6.7 percent among Black households and 7.3 percent among Hispanics. The effect was even stronger on median values …
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Healthcare in the United States is the most expensive in the world, with real per capita spending growth averaging 4 percent since 1980. This paper examines the role of market power of U.S. healthcare providers and pharmaceutical companies. It finds that markups (the ability to charge prices...
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Study of the impact of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) on productivity and market power has been complicated by the difficulty of separating these two effects. We use newly-developed techniques to separately estimate productivity and markups across a wide range of industries using detailed...
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