Home Run

Hypertension self-management: a home run for patients and payers.

The Possible Effect of Steroids on Home-Run Production

36 IN A RECENT paper entitled “On the Potential of a Chemical Bonds: Possible Effects of Steroids on Home Run Production in Baseball,”1 physicist Roger Tobin develops a systematic analysis showing how performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) taken by an already highly skilled player could produce a dramatic increase in home-run production. Tobin starts by looking statistically at home-run production ...

Home with Mom: The Effects of Stay-at-Home Parents on Children's Long-Run Educational Outcomes

In 1998 the Norwegian government introduced a program that increased parents’ incentives to stay home with children under the age of three. Many eligible children had older siblings, and we investigate how this program affected long-run educational outcomes of the older siblings. Using comprehensive administrative data, we estimate a difference-in-differences model which exploits differences in...

Rege Home with Mom : The effects of stay - at - home parents on children ’ s long - run educational outcomes

In 1998 the Norwegian government introduced a program that substantially increased parents’ incentives to stay home with children under the age of three. Many eligible children had older siblings, and we investigate how this program affected long-run educational outcomes of the older siblings. Using comprehensive administrative data, we estimate a difference-in-differences model which exploits ...

Minors in the Major Leagues: Youth Courts Hit a Home Run for Juvenile Justice

Youth courts provide an efficient—albeit unconventional—alternative to the formal juvenile justice system. Although structures of youth courts vary, the purpose remains the same: to rehabilitate and deter youth offenders in a forum largely governed by their minor peers—one free of the stigma associated with the traditional justice system. This Note examines the expansion of youth courts; variou...