The ACA provided funding to help states expand Medicaid eligibility. Expansions in Medicaid eligibility, however, could "crowd out" private insurance coverage. To estimate the extent of such crowd out, I use a difference-in-difference empirical approach, examining changes in health insurance...

People often struggle to achieve self-improvement goals. In a randomized controlled trial, we nudged participants with peer information to sign up for a goal-setting activity. We find that while nudging leads to a higher sign-up rate relative to the baseline without nudging, it does not always...

This study adopts ARDL and VAR estimation methods to examine whether military spending crowd-out or crowd-in private investment in Nigeria. We use the data that covers the period from 1970 to 2019. Our results, based on the ARDL method, show that military spending only crowds-out private...

Limited empirical studies have disaggregated the government spending into infrastructure and consumption expenditures in this thematic area. More so, Kenya has witnessed a tremendous increase in spending on infrastructural projects such as highways, road, ports, fiber optic, standard gauge...

Recently, mandatory pension contributions in the private sector in Iceland were increased substantially while remaining unchanged in the public sector. This constituted a large natural experiment. We study the effects of this experiment on households’ voluntary saving using administrative...

This paper investigates the extent to which means-tested scholarships received by higher education students in France crowd out parental financial support. We estimate a private transfer function using survey data completed in 2014 on a sample of students aged between 18 and 24. When introducing...

The Chinese government is fostering a new development pattern with domestic circulation as the mainstay and domestic and international circulations reinforcing each other. This arouses the need to construct a micro-foundation to coordinate firms' OFDI and domestic investment. Since the Belt and...