The decision to start an entrepreneurial activity can largely depend upon the institutional settings in which an entrepreneur resides. Economic freedom is a widely measured index for institutional context and quality. Ample studies find a positive association between economic freedom and...

The shortage of nurse practitioners (NPs) in the United States has broadly decreased access, decreased quality, and increased cost of care for an aging population in both metro and rural areas. Some state policymakers are trying to address the shortage by expanding NPs' scope of practice (that...

Researchers specializing in gun policy often measure the effect of a given policy using a standard difference-in-difference approach. We highlight a potential concern with this method which complicates the identification of a causal relationship: gun access potentially changes with legislation....

Policymakers prioritizing increasing access to health care, while simultaneously keeping costs low and quality high, are considering expanding the scope of practice and prescriptive authority of nurse practitioners. While we know this increases access, some researchers argue that the expansion...

Literature relates the sudden expansion of tight oil and shale gas in the United States with higher employment and income. In this work, we investigate the disamenities due to the shale boom— the effects of the shale boom on local crime. Based on all the counties in the US, we find places with...

In 2018, Idaho became the first state to grant prescriptive authority to pharmacists in the United States for a limited range of medications related to minor conditions. We examine the effects of this reform on access to care for Medicare beneficiaries prescribed albuterol sulfate (a drug to...