This paper investigates the effects of alleviating remoteness constraints on access to quality maternal and newborn health care. Using a cluster-randomized controlled trial, we provided transportation vouchers to impoverished pregnant women residing in remote Nicaraguan villages located...

Geographic school admissions criteria bind residential and school choices for some parents, and could create externalities in equilibrium for non-parents through displacement or higher rent. Through a dynamic structural model, we show that the policy decision of geographic versus non-geographic...

Harnessing changes in funding for a voucher program that subsidizes consumers' use of child care services at private providers, this study quantifies effects on local markets' service capacity and prices. We also estimate how increased funding effects provider entry rate, exit rate, and highly...

This paper investigates the effects of alleviating remoteness constraints on access to quality maternal and newborn health care. Using a cluster-randomized controlled trial, we provided transportation vouchers to impoverished pregnant women residing in remote Nicaraguan villages located...

Research on voucher schools has mainly focused on whether students experience improved academic results in these schools and whether they generate competitive pressure for public schools. In this paper we focus instead on the role voucher schools might play in altering the menu of options...

Quasi-markets in the provision of public services are increasingly common but also highly contested. We formulate a conceptual framework based on economic theory to describe how quasi-markets differ from traditional markets in five aspects: 1) revenues, costs, and profits, 2) the matching of...

In Europa wurden in den letzten Jahren verschiedene Programme zur nachfrageorientierten Förderung mit unterschiedlichen Zielsetzungen, Ausrichtungen und Ausgestaltungen implementiert. Auch die im Januar veröffentlichten Leitlinien der EU-Kommission zur Breitbandförderung nehmen erstmals Bezug...

This essay analyzes the inconsistencies in Milton Friedman's proposal for a market-based public education system through school vouchers. The author argues that voucher policy has been executed inefficiently and has become a political tool for the religious right, tied to issues of race, class,...

In 2019, nearly 5 million deaths globally were associated with infections from bacteria with antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Despite the growing need for effective drugs treating patients with infections from resistant bacteria, the development pipeline is limited, and few new antibiotics offer...

Starting in 2009, the German state of Saxony distributed sports club membership vouchers among all 33,000 third graders in the state. The policy’s objective was to encourage them to develop a long-term habit of exercising. In 2018, we carried out a large register-based survey among several...

This paper examines the impact of a recent increase in the value of healthy start vouchers (HSV) on the purchase of healthy items, using a large and representative sample of 13 million shopping basket transactions from a major UK food retailer. We use a difference-in-differences (DiD) approach...

In Europa wurden in den letzten Jahren verschiedene Programme zur nachfrageorientierten Förderung mit unterschiedlichen Zielsetzungen, Ausrichtungen und Ausgestaltungen implementiert. Auch die im Januar veröffentlichten Leitlinien der EU-Kommission zur Breitbandförderung nehmen erstmals Bezug...

Marcus, Siedler and Ziebarth (2022 American Economic Journal: Economic Policy) examine the long-run health effects of a universal sports-club voucher program that was introduced in Saxony for primary school children in 2009. In 2018, the authors designed a survey that targeted the affected...

Neben der Erwerbsarbeit spielt die im Haushalt vorwiegend von Frauen geleistete private Care-Arbeit für die individuelle und kollektive Wohlfahrt eine herausragende Rolle. Die entgeltliche Auslagerung von Haushalts- und Sorgeaufgaben an haushaltsfremde Dritte wird zunehmend als ein Ausweg aus...

School choice initiatives and charter schools have grown substantially in the past two and a half decades. Economists argue that this is a move toward more competition and should lead to improved school system performance. However, school choice and charter school enabling laws can be quite...

Recently, interest in social services has been rapidly increasing in South Korea because of an aging population, nuclear families, an increase in female participation in the workforce, and other demographic and social structural changes. Demands for social services have been rising rapidly as a...

This Article uncovers a critical disjuncture in our system of providing affordable rental housing. At the federal level, the oldest, fiercest debate in low-income housing policy is between project-based and tenant-based subsidies: should the government help build new affordable housing projects...

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 contained former President Trump’s signature economic development initiative: the Opportunity Zone program. Allowing a deferral of capital gains tax for certain qualifying investments in low-income areas, the Opportunity Zone program aims to spur economic...

The Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program, which provides rental assistance to low- and moderate-income households in need, does not reach its full potential due to operating system inefficiencies and challenges which discourage housing providers from participation. If the HCV program...

The Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program is the nation’s tenant-based rental assistance program, which offers the assisted household choice about where to live. Does that choice translate into movement into neighborhoods of high opportunity and racial or ethnic integration, especially among...

Blockchain technology has been increasingly adopted in supply chain finance. This study investigates how payment programs - digital voucher financing and transfer programs - are facilitated by blockchain and compares them with traditional bank financing. Using a game-theory approach, we inspect...

Neben der Erwerbsarbeit spielt die im Haushalt vorwiegend von Frauen geleistete private Care-Arbeit für die individuelle und kollektive Wohlfahrt eine herausragende Rolle. Die entgeltliche Auslagerung von Haushalts- und Sorgeaufgaben an haushaltsfremde Dritte wird zunehmend als ein Ausweg aus...

We analyze how school vouchers affect post-secondary attainment by exploiting the universal voucher program implemented in Chile in 1981. The program allowed students to choose which primary and secondary schools to attend. The government covered tuition independently of whether the chosen...

To study the effects of neighborhood and place-based interventions, this paper incorporates neighborhood effects into a general equilibrium (GE) heterogeneous-agent overlapping-generations model with endogenous location choice and child skill development. Importantly, housing costs as well as...

We study a new consumption stimulus model that leverages mobile payment platforms to dispense massive amounts of small-value, use-it-this-week-or-lose-it digital coupons. We evaluate the effects of one such program in a large Chinese city using novel data of mobile platform transactions of 1...

In 2020, local governments in China began issuing digital coupons to stimulate spending in targeted categories such as restaurants and supermarkets. Using data from a large e-commerce platform and a bunching estimation approach, we find that the coupons caused large increases in spending of...

We leverage a unique two-stage experiment that randomized access to private school vouchers across markets as well as students to estimate the revealed preference value of school choice. To do this, we estimate several choice models on data only from control markets before turning to the...