The canonical difference-in-differences (DD) estimator contains two time periods,” pre” and”
post”, and two groups,” treatment” and” control”. Most DD applications, however, exploit …

Winner of the 2020 Outstanding Book Award Presented by the Public and Nonprofit Section
of the National Academy of Management Winner of the 2019 Louis Brownlow Book Award …

This article reviews findings from 38 rigorous studies published in the peer-reviewed
literature of the impact of the Medicaid/Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) …

In both its costs and the number of its enrollees, Medicaid is the largest means-tested
transfer program in the United States. It is also a fundamental part of the health care system …

The study of administrative burden—experienced in individual encounters with government—
is being renewed with new theoretical developments and policy applications. Building on …

This paper provides new evidence that Medicaid's introduction reduced infant and child
mortality in the 1960s and 1970s. Mandated coverage of all cash welfare recipients induced …

Administrative burden is an individual's experience of policy implementation as onerous.
Such burdens may be created because of a desire to limit payments to ineligible claimants …

Abstract “Chilling effects” are a popular explanation for low program take-up rates among
immigrants, but the effects of an icy policy climate are inherently hard to measure. This paper …

Ten years ago, Cutler and Gruber [Cutler, D., Gruber, J., 1996. Does public health insurance
crowdout private insurance? Quarterly Journal of Economics 111, 391–430] suggested that …

Utilizing a statewide survey and administrative data, we explore how state-imposed burdens
are translated by street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) into frontline practices that may alleviate or …