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Working Papers

Dec 6, 2018

Evidence on the Effectiveness of Heroin-Assisted Treatment

This working paper is part of a series of reports assessing the evidence on and arguments made about heroin-assisted treatment and supervised consumption sites and examining some of the issues associated with implementing them in the United States.

Rosanna Smart
Jul 16, 2018

The state of financial knowledge in college: New evidence from a national survey

Explores gaps in financial knowledge and the overall state of financial literacy of college students.

Drew M. Anderson, Johnathan G. Conzelmann, T. Austin Lacy
May 22, 2018

Exploring Voluntary Retirement Incentives for Teachers: Effects on Retention and Cost in Chicago Public Schools

Uses a dynamic model of teacher retention behavior to predict the number of Chicago Public Schools teachers willing to accept voluntary retirement incentive and retire.

David Knapp, James Hosek, Michael G. Mattock, Beth J. Asch
May 16, 2018

Imperfect Synthetic Controls: Did the Massachusetts Health Care Reform Save Lives?

Recommends a two-step synthetic control method which allows for estimation of a specification with interactive fixed effects which nests more traditional additive fixed effects models.

David Powell
Nov 17, 2017

Re-Evaluating the Returns to Language Skills Using Latent Trait Estimates

Constructs more robust latent trait measures of language fluency using well-established psychometric methods, and re-evaluates the evidence for the wage premium.

James V. Marrone
Feb 2, 2017

Drawing Down Retirement Wealth: Interactions between Social Security Wealth and Private Retirement Savings

Uses Health and Retirement Study survey data matched to Social Security administrative data to study how households integrate Social Security benefits into their general retirement income plans.

Philip Armour, Angela A. Hung