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Do high technology agglomerations encourage urban sprawl?

This paper looks at the impact of high technology employment concentrations on urban sprawl. A methodology for translating spatial employment patterns, into place of residence patterns, is presented. On this basis, the consumption of land at the urban fringe due to both residential and nonresidential uses, is estimated. The method is tested empirically using data relating to the two main outer ...

Do Tax Rate Cuts Encourage Entrepreneurial Entry?

Policy makers have long been interested in whether tax policies can be used to encourage entrepreneurial activity, but prior studies have produced ambiguous results. We use a twelveyear panel of tax return data to examine the effects of tax rates on entrepreneurial entry. We calculate household-level tax rates and employ multiple measures of entrepreneurship. Our results offer convincing eviden...

How do we encourage patient engagement?

F ollowing on the theme from my previous editorial (Mayer, 2014), I want to address another goal identified in Delivering High-Quality Cancer Care: Charting a New Course for a System in Crisis (Institute of Medicine, 2013): engaged patients. The report identified patient engagement as the number one recommendation. The recommendation states that patients and their families should be given under...

Why the Market Did Not Encourage It and How It Might Be Made to Do So

PREFACE The purpose of this report is to explore the economics of vehicle safety, an area heretofore apparently neglected by economists. In addition, the report suggests fruitful research areas for the NHSB that could contribute to providing greater economic incentives for vehicle safety. Wolf for their helpful comments and criticisms.-ii-SUMMARY This report examines four topics: the relative m...