This paper introduces a model of optimal health insurance. This model provides theoretical guidance of the relationship between household preferences, cost-sharing, and premiums. It applies this model to understand how the income tax subsidy distorts optimal cost-sharing in health insurance....

This paper studies the impact of income taxes on intensive and extensive labor supply decisions for older workers. The literature provides little evidence about the responsiveness of the older population to tax incentives, though the tax code is a potentially important mechanism for affecting...

Despite efforts to address the opioid crisis, opioid-related overdoses remain a significant contributor to mortality. State efforts to reduce overdose deaths by removing barriers to naloxone have recently focused on pharmacy channels, but the specifics of these laws and the contexts in which...

The opioid crisis continues to worsen, and there is broad interest in understanding whether expanding access to non-opioid pain management therapies curbs rising overdose rates. We study the potential of medical cannabidiol (CBD) access to substitute for opioid use and reduce opioid-related...

Causal inference requires estimation of counterfactual outcomes. Given panel data, it is customary to use unit- and time-specific information to impute counterfactuals. Additive unit and time fixed effects are often used, but a rapidly growing literature has introduced alternative methods to...

Naloxone is a life-saving medication which helps reverse the effects of an opioid overdose. Improving naloxone access is a central pillar of the federal response to the worsening opioid crisis in the United States. Existing studies have evaluated the effects of state naloxone access laws,...

One of the stylized facts from the literature on international activities of heterogeneous firms is the existence of a positive exporter productivity premium - on average, exporting firms are more productive than firms that sell on the national market only. In this paper, the authors look at the...