[Original air date: April 17, 2020] What’s Happening in Healthcare to Get Utahns BACK TO WORK View Recording View PowerPoint Moderator: Andrew Croshaw Chief Executive Officer of Leavitt Partners Speaker: Mike Leavitt, Former [...]
Adam Looney and Constantine Yanellis, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2020. In a Point/Counterpoint exchange in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, the authors argue that the government should repair the student loan system by creating incentives for institutional accountability and restricting loan eligibility and amounts based on student outcomes. [download pdf]
[Original air date: April 10, 2020] The Federal Reserve, Macroeconomic Forces, and Your Business View Recording View PowerPoint Moderator: Randal Quarles Vice Chair for Supervision of the Federal Reserve Board and Chairman of the Financial Stability Board [...]
[Original air date: April 14, 2020] Cash is King — Managing Finance and Cash Flow Pressures in a Pandemic View Recording Download PPT Speaker: Matthew Ringgenberg Associate Professor of Finance at the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah [...]
[Original air date: April 7, 2020] Workforce Decisions and the CARES Act View Recording Download PPT Moderator: Scott Schaefer John W. McIntyre Family Endowed Chair for Free Market Economics and Professor of Finance at the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of [...]
[Original air date: April 3, 2020] How to Save Your Business View Recording Download PPT Speaker: Mike Leavitt Former Secretary, United States Health and Human Services; Former Utah Governor; President and CEO, Leavitt Partners [...]
Jason Cook, Stéphane Lavertu, and Corbin Miller, 2020. We estimate the effect of Ohio teachers unions on education production by comparing the outcomes of districts that allocated new tax revenue in the midst of collective bargaining negotiations (subject to relatively high union pressure) to the outcomes of districts that allocated new tax revenue well before negotiations [...]
Jason Cook, Francine D. Blau, Lawrence M. Kahn, Peter Brummund, and Miriam Larson-Koester, 2020. In this paper, we use 2008–2013 American Community Survey data to update and further probe evidence on son preference in the USA. In light of the substantial increase in immigration, we examine this question separately for natives and immigrants. [download pdf]
Jason Cook, Vladimir Kogan, Stéphane Lavertu, and Zachary Peskowitz, 2020. Governments around the world have privatized public services in the name of efficiency and citizen empowerment, but some argue that privatization could also affect citizen participation in democratic governance. We explore this possibility by estimating the impact of charter schools (which are publicly funded but privately [...]
In 2007, the Supreme Court declared race-conscious school admissions unconstitutional. This paper provides the first evaluation of a related federal mandate where a school district was forced to adopt a race-blind lottery system for its magnet schools. Lottery-estimated magnet school returns fall substantially under race-blind admissions. I explore a plausible mechanism: the dramatic increase [...]