WHY DOESN’T THE UNITED STATES HAVE NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE? THE POLITICAL ROLE OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
Marcella Alsan, Stanford University
This study examines how the American Medical Association (AMA) helped shape the development of the U.S. health insurance system in the...
Joint Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics and ISR-Zwerdling Seminar in Labor Economics: Tuesday, April 21
Ellora Derenoncourt, Princeton University
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Why Are Some Recoveries Weak and Others Strong?
Johannes Wieland, University of California, San Diego
Why were the recoveries from the 1990-1, 2001, and 2007-9 recessions weak relative to other postwar recessions? Leveraging heterogeneous...
Digital Ecosystems and Data Regulation
Jidong Zhou, Yale University
This paper develops a framework in which a multiproduct ecosystem competes with multiple single-product firms in both price and innovation....
Development as Skills and Altruism
Rachid Laajaj, Universidad de Los Andes Calle
This paper emphasizes the central role of skill and altruism in development, defined as an increase in social welfare. In the basic model,...
The Commoditization of Labor (joint with Emi Nakamura and Jón Steinsson)
Masao Fukui, Boston University
Technical change often simplifies jobs. This increases productivity, but it also makes work- ers more substitutable—or more...
