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Who Gains from creative destruction? Evidence from high-quality entrepreneurship in the United States

The question of who gains from high-quality entrepreneurship is crucial to understanding whether investments in innovative startup firms produce socially beneficial outcomes. Although entrepreneurship is widely viewed as a central driver of economic growth, recent research has ra...

A retrospective claims analysis of the association between residential greenness and per capita healthcare costs among fee-for-service Medicare patients

Abstract Nature amenities in everyday environments have been shown to improve health, which may translate to healthcare cost savings. We examined the association between residential greenness (mean NDVI measured at the census tract level) and healthcare costs in a longitudinal (2...

Differences in disability insurance allowance rates

Abstract Allowance rates for disability insurance (DI) applications vary by race and ethnicity, but it is unclear to what extent these differences are artifacts of other differing socio‐economic and health characteristics. This paper uses the 2015 American Community Survey linked...

The Fertility Reduction Effects of the Colorado Family Planning Initiative by Age and Parity

ABSTRACT We use restricted‐access birth records from the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) to document the full age and parity fertility effects of the Colorado Family Planning Initiative (CFPI). The CFPI provided access to every FDA approved method of contraception for fre...