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“Drive and Wave”: The Response to LAPD Police Reforms After Rampart
Key Takeaways Police reform measures are under consideration in many US cities following the May 2020 death of George Floyd and the subsequent civil unrest. Evidence from police reform proposals in Los Angeles suggests that such reform could have unintended consequences. Arrest-to-crime rates fell by 40 percent after reforms were initiated. Other data, including suggestive police surveys, provide evidence of “drive and wave" behavior by policy officers.
Preparing for a Pandemic: Accelerating Vaccine Availability
Vaccinating the world’s population quickly in a pandemic has enormous health and economic benefits. We analyze the problem faced by governments in determining the scale and structure of procurement for vaccines. We analyze alternative approaches to procurement, arguing that buyers should directly fund manufacturing capacity and shoulder most of the risk of failure, while maintaining some direct incentives for speed.
A Vaccine for Billions
Podcast episode • Dec 3, 2020 Pre-existing Confusion: The US Health Insurance System Eduardo Porter, Tess Vigeland, Katherine Baicker, Matthew J. Notowidigdo, Stacy Lindau The American health insurance system is complex, politically divisive, in need of reform, and facing... Topics: Health care, COVID-19
Favoritism Under Social Pressure
This paper is concerned with the effect of nonmonetary incentives on behavior, in particular with the study of social pressure as a determinant of corruption. We offer empirical evidence that shows how professional soccer referees favor home teams in order to satisfy the crowds in the stadium. Referees have discretion over the addition of extra time at the end of a soccer game to compensate for lost time due to unusual stoppages.
How Food Banks Use Markets to Feed the Poor
Abstract A difficult issue for organizations is how to assign valuable resources across competing opportunities. This work describes how Feeding America allocates about 300 million pounds of food a year to over two hundred food banks across the United States. It does so in an unusual way: in 2005, it switched from a centralized queuing system, where food banks would wait their turn, to a market-based mechanism where they bid daily on truckloads of food using a "fake" currency called shares.
Market forces can help fill food banks
You needn’t be a food-insecure person to have some familiarity with the United States’ network of organizations devoted to fighting hunger. You may have volunteered at one of the country’s 60,000 food pantries and meal programs. Or donated to one of its 200 food banks. Or know one of the 10 million–12 million Americans who visit a food pantry in a given year. This network is as vast as it is vital.
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