We study the relationship between housing inequality and crime in South Africa. create a novel panel dataset combining information on at police station level with census data. Our analysis shows that explains significant share of variation both property violent crimes, net spillover effects, time district fixed effects. An increase roughly one standard deviation 10–12 percent total increases. A...

This paper analyzes the income manipulation to thresholds in eligibility for a subsidized program in the Massachusetts health insurance reform, the statelevel precursor to federal health care reform. Using data from the American Community Survey, I test for the existence of income manipulation and nd clear evidence around the thresholds of 150 percent and 300 percent of Federal Poverty Level. T...

There is concern that many young adults (ages 19--29) will remain without health insurance in 2014 despite the Affordable Care Act's reforms, including subsidized private coverage offered in new state marketplaces and expanded Medicaid eligibility. How things turn out will likely depend on outreach efforts and states' decisions on expanding Medicaid. Commonwealth Fund Health Insurance Tracking ...

harity care programs (CCPs) have historically provided access to care and subsidized health coverage for uninsured and underinsured populations in the U.S. With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), these safety‐net programs are adjusting to the new health care environment. Many individuals who previously used charity care services now have health coverage options through the ACA...

This Cochrane Review by Polec and colleagues focuses on new approaches for the use of ITNs in malaria prevention by presenting strategies to increase their ownership and use. The analysis focuses on three major topics. First, the influence of the cost of an ITN on ownership is explored and concludes that there is moderate evidence that providing free ITNs increases ownership compared to subsidi...

P roviding assistance to the poor through in-kind transfers, such as vouchers for food and housing, garners more political support than providing assistance in cash. Supporters of such policies believe that providing voucher payments for certain goods (such as groceries) will cause recipients to purchase more of the goods being subsidized, and that recipients will not be able to use public assi...

This paper highlights the importance of product differentiation and endogenous r&d in determining the optimal r&d policy, in a model where investment in cost reducing r&d is committed before firms compete in a differentiated-goods third-country export market. R&D is always taxed in oligopolies for high degrees of product differentiation. For lower degrees of product differentiation the duopoly ...

OBJECTIVE Assessing the impact of subsidized healthcare insurance on access to cervical cytology in Medellin, Colombia. MATERIALS AND METHODS Propensity score matching (PSM) was used with 2008 Life Quality Survey in Colombia figures to obtain a control group comparable to a treatment group. This involved using stratification estimates, the k-nearest-neighbor algorithm and kernel density for c...

Pulsed resource subsidies can have profound effects on recipient communities. The effects of resource pulses are often mediated by increases in the density of consumer populations. Here we investigate several mechanisms linking experimental pulses of seaweed deposition to population-level responses in the brown anole Anolis sagrei. Subsidized lizards grew approximately 30% faster than lizards i...

MARKETING BOARDS, FERTILIZER SUBSIDIES, PRICES, & SMALLHOLDER BEHAVIOR: MODELING & POLICY IMPLICATIONS FOR ZAMBIA By Nicole Marie Mason Grain marketing boards (GMBs), strategic grain reserves (SGRs), and fertilizer subsidies have experienced a renaissance in eastern and southern Africa over the last decade. Relatively little is known about how the re-emergence of GMBs/SGRs as major players in m...