The Affordable Care Act requires insurers to offer cost sharing reductions (CSRs) to low-income consumers on the Marketplaces. We link 2013-2015 All-Payer Claims Data to 2004-2013 administrative hospital discharge data from Utah and exploit policy-driven differences in the actuarial value of CSR...

What are the pro-competitive consequences of trade in frictional labor markets? This paper develops and estimates a dynamic general equilibrium trade model to show that the interplay between endogenously variable markups in product markets and frictions in labor markets has important...

What are the unequal effects of changes in consumer prices on the cost of living? In the context of changes in import prices (driven by, e.g., changes in trade costs or exchange rates), most analyses focus on variation across households in initial expenditure shares on imported goods. However,...

This paper characterizes the key tradeoffs faced by households in deciding how much solar power to produce privately on their rooftops or to subscribe to in a community solar project, and how these trade-offs are influenced by a public utility company’s (or regulator’s) comprehensive pricing...

This paper characterizes the key tradeoffs faced by households in deciding how much solar power to produce privately on their rooftops or to subscribe to in a community solar project, and how these tradeoffs are influenced by a regulator's pricing strategy. Households choose their rooftop- and...