This paper estimates whether the implementation of the 2006 Massachusetts health reform law affected the decision of individuals to retire early. Using data from the American Community Survey that spans 2002-2012, we estimate difference-in-differences models for retirement, in which individuals...

We examine the degree of complementarity or substitutability of donations of time and money. Utilizing data on volunteering from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics that spans 2001-2019, we estimate the impact of recent changes in the after-tax price of giving on the amount of volunteering (both...

Our paper represents the first attempt in the literature to estimate the properties of business income risk from privately held businesses in the US. Using a new, large, and confidential panel of US income tax returns for the period 1987-2009, we extensively document the empirical stylized facts...

This paper evaluates whether the implementation of the 2006 Massachusetts health reform law affected the decision of taxpayers to be self-employed, using both difference-in-differences and synthetic control methods on a panel of tax returns that spans 1999–2010. Though tenuous, our results...

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This paper uses CPS data to examine changes in single women's labor supply elasticities in recent decades. Specifically, the authors investigate trends in how single women's hours of work and labor force participation rates responded to both wages and income over the years 1979–2003....

This paper uses CPS data to examine changes in single women’s labor supply elas¬ticities in recent decades. Specifically, the authors investigate trends in how single women’s hours of work and labor force participation rates responded to both wages and income over the years 1979–2003....

We study the effect of the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion on coverage dynamics following the sudden loss of coverage from an employer plan. This analysis leverages novel administrative data capturing monthly health insurance coverage for the U.S. population. Using these data, we...

This paper uses CPS data to examine changes in single women's labor supply elas­ticities in recent decades. Specifically, the authors investigate trends in how single women's hours of work and labor force participation rates responded to both wages and income over the years 1979-2003. Results...