Incomplete health insurance enrollment is a persistent U.S. challenge despite large subsidies. We ask whether hassles built into enrollment systems matter for insurance take-up and targeting. Studying removal of an auto-enrollment policy, we find that a small hassle – a requirement to actively...

Hospitals face large and variable costs from treating indigent care patients. Two methods of "reinsuring" hospitals against these costs are providing these patients with insurance and directly providing hospitals with supplemental payments to cover the expected costs of treating the indigent....

Inter- and intra-state disparities in levels of literacy rates in India are striking, especially for the marginalized groups of women and low caste population. The present paper offers an explanation of this disparate development in terms of elite dominance that discriminates against the...

Marathi Abstract: सन 1991 च्या मुक्त आर्थिक धोरणाच्या माध्यमातून आलेले जगातिकीकरण मुळात कुणाच्या फायद्याचे ठरणार आहे याचा...

Globalization is fast casting its hypnotic spells on developing countries, which are unable to resist the lure in the name of development. After more than decade of freeing doors of the Indian economy for the Globalization, there is increased debate on its impact on the daliths who are poor and...

While quota based and other affirmative action remains on the policy radar of nations faced with social inequalities, there is limited evidence informing policy choices at the national level. This paper estimates the mid-term impact of quota-based affirmative action in higher education (HE) in...