We study the efficiency and distributional effects of financing universal health-insurance coverage, using a computational general equilibrium model of the United States for 1991, with considerable disaggregation among families. Aggregate efficiency losses (primarily from labor supply...

Examines individual participation in amnesties, both from the point of view of what economic analysis would lead us to expect and on the basis of evidence from actual amnesty programs. Concludes that amnesties are appropriate in easing the transition to enhanced enforcement and seen to generate...

If to behave commercially is to act like a for-profit firm, then the ultimate expression of commercialism for a nonprofit is to convert its legal status to the for-profit form. Conversion is increasingly common, most notably in health care, and is now attracting considerable public attention....

In many industries, such as higher education, hospitals, and museums, nonprofit organizations control great wealth. Public and private donations, tax subsidies, and volunteered services have typically made that wealth accumulation possible. In return for the various forms of assistance,...

We analyze four methods to measure unexplained gaps in mean outcomes: three decompositions based on the seminal work of Oaxaca (1973) and Blinder (1973) and an approach involving a seemingly naïve regression that includes a group indicator variable. Our analysis yields two principal findings....