We document the effects of abortion-clinic closures on clinic access, abortions, and births using variation generated by a law that shuttered nearly half of Texas' clinics. Increases in distance have significant effects for women initially living within 200 miles of a clinic. The largest effect...

Most governments in the world including the United States prohibit prostitution. Given these types of laws rarely change and are fairly uniform across regions, our knowledge about the impact of decriminalizing sex work is largely conjectural. We exploit the fact that a Rhode Island District...

The electric power industry has been consistently moving away from vertically integrated, centrally regulated system towards a market-based, competitively organized industry. There remain unfulfilled requirements for institutional reform. In this paper, we confront existing and developing...