Is the difficulty of purchasing health insurance as an individual or small business a major barrier to entrepreneurship in the United States? I answer this question by taking advantage of the natural experiment provided by the Affordable Care Act’s dependent coverage mandate, which allowed...

The nation is on a mission to “flatten the curve.” The goal is not so much to reduce the total number of COVID-19 infections — though that would be ideal — but to reduce the number of infections at any one time, so as to ensure that the nation’s healthcare resources are not...

For 50 years, US policymakers and economists have searched for ways to slow the growth of spending on health care. One approach currently taken by 35 states is to restrict the supply of health care by requiringnew and growing providers to show that they serve an economic need. Hospitals and...

Certificate of Need (CON) laws in place in most US states require health care providers to prove to a state board that their proposed services are necessary in order to be allowed to open or expand. While CON most commonly targets hospital and nursing home beds, data from the American Health...

Broadband deployment policies have directly subsidized fiber providers because fiber broadband delivers fast download speeds. This paper examines if recent fiber buildout has increased competition for aDSL and cable incumbents and if entry by a fiber competitor predicts faster incumbent download...