The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act eliminated federal charitable giving incentives for roughly 20 percent of US income-tax payers. We study the impact of this on giving. Basic theory and our empirical results suggest heterogeneous effects for taxpayers with different amounts of itemizable expenses....

We study the causal impacts of income on a rich array of employment outcomes, leveraging an experiment in which 1,000 low-income individuals were randomized into receiving $1,000 per month unconditionally for three years, with a control group of 2,000 participants receiving $50/month. We gather...

We study habit formation in annual biometric health screenings using a field experiment that randomly assigned financial incentives to 4,799 employees over three years. Completing the first screening raised subsequent screenings by 32.4-36.0 percentage points (84%-90%) annually. Habit formation...

Die jüngste Abwertung der chinesischen Währung als Folge des andauernden Handelsstreits mit den USA hat auch Auswirkungen auf Europa. Dieser Beitrag untersucht unter Annahme einer Normalreaktion der chinesischen Leistungsbilanz die Handelseffekte einer 10%igen und 20%igen Yuan-Abwertung im...

We characterize the evolution of markups for consumer products in the United States from 2006 to 2019. Using detailed data on prices and quantities for products in more than 100 distinct product categories, we estimate flexible demand systems and recover markups under an assumption that firms...

This paper builds on a previous paper by the authors (Kornfeld and Fraumeni, 2022) that primarily used U.S. Federal Highway Administration Highway Statistics data to disaggregate investment in highways and streets into more detailed types to produce updated estimates of net wealth stocks and...

Das Buch stellt die Vielzahl unterschiedlicher Managed-Care-Organisationsformen und -Instrumente vor. Dabei wird detailliert sowohl auf Organisationsformen wie HMOs, PPOs, ACOs, PBM und andere eingegangen, als auch auf im Rahmen von Managed Care entstandene Vertragsmodelle. Neben den...