My colleague Jaimie Cavanaugh has been battling Certificate of Need (CON) laws for years. Here she reflects on a recent gathering with fellow warriors. ij.org/cje-post/endin…

The Knee Center is thrilled to announce the newest addition to our extensive network of research affiliates, Vitor Melo as our newest Student Affiliate. vitor guilherme Click the link below to read Vitor's bio & answer questions on this new affiliation! ⬇️⬇️ linkedin.com/posts/the-knee…

Every econ major should understand the Coase Conjecture. It addresses the case where a monopolist sells a product like a book---i.e., the product, for all intents and purposes, lasts forever and no customer wants to buy more than one unit of it. Coase offered a brilliant

Excited to share my latest Mercatus Center working paper with Liam Sigaud and Vitor Melo , 'The Hidden Subsidy of the Affordable Care Act,' where we investigate if the incentives of Medicaid expansion led states to strategically reclassify enrollees, effectively shifting costs to the

Our paper evaluating the border-design strategy and results from Dube/Lester/Reich's influential paper on #minimumwage effects on restaurant employment is now an NBER Working Paper (and forthcoming in JPE Micro--kudos for publishing replications). nber.org/papers/w32901?…

My paper with Jane Ruseski "NCAA football coach compensation and non-price competition for football players" is now out in Applied Economics.

Tough to understand how the person who might be VP of the most prosperous country in world (second place isn’t even close) does not get that the US is the most prosperous country in the world. Not to mention understanding that immigration played a big role in that.

‘The death of campus life’: first major Australian university dumps face-to-face lectures, leaving staff ‘furious’ theguardian.com/australia-news…

“I work with a great number of young people… from all over the world. It's just stunning to me how many of them want to come to the United States… and it's stunning to me how few say, ‘Oh, could you help me get into Denmark?’” @TylerCowen says the American dream is alive and

🚨 New publicly available dataset on housing regulations across US municipalities With AlexBartik and Daniel Milo, we highlight a novel AI-based method for accurate categorization of regulations in unstructured text, which we use to establish 5 facts about housing regulation:

Thank you Governor Mike Parson for highlighting Missouri's ranking in our State Occupational Licensing Index ranking! Joint work with Archbridge Institute