The nearly sixty-year-old McNamara-O’Hara Service Contract Act (SCA) is a federal statute that governs and regulates service contracts between the federal government and individuals and/or companies. These regulations explicitly govern minimum wage and health/welfare benefits requirements and...

We explore the effect of e-cigarette taxes enacted in eight states and two large counties on e-cigarette prices, e-cigarette sales, and sales of other tobacco products. We use the Nielsen Retail Scanner data from 2011 to 2017, comprising approximately 35,000 retailers nationally. We calculate a...

On April 7, 2020, Wisconsin held its presidential primary election, and news reports showed long lines of voters due to fewer polling locations. We use county-level variation in voting patterns and weekly county-level COVID test data to examine whether in-person voting increased COVID-19 cases....