Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs, and the analysis it therefore not experimental science search law but interpretive one meaning. (Geertz 1973, p. 5) In this well-known quotation featured here as epigraph, defined a web meanings humans weave hold themselves up and, can assume, provide panorami...

We evaluate the effects of state policy design features on SCHIP take-up rates and on the degree to which SCHIP benefits crowd out private benefits. The results indicate overall program take-up rates of approximately 10 percent. However, there is considerable heterogeneity across states, suggesting a potential role of inter-state variation in policy design. We find that several design mechanism...