Many commentators argue that uncertainty about taxes, government spending and other policy matters deepened the recession of 2007-2009 and slowed the recovery. To investigate this issue we develop a new index of policy-related economic uncertainty and estimate its dynamic relationship to output, investment and employment.

Last month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released its latest projections of health spending. These official projections showed that the health share of GDP would rise to 19.8 percent by 2020. But just as official estimates substantially understate the role of government in health spending, they fail to highlight a point that should be of concern to all Americans.

The lack of good information on providers' performance is an impediment to improving the affordability and quality of health care.

The good news for those who want to reduce energy consumption but cannot make major lifestyle changes is that there are unexplored options for reducing energy use.

Many new medical technologies reduce direct health costs, but when they reduce costs in the short run, they often increase costs over the long run.

Tom Miller's proposals for Medicaid reform. 

A new procedure improves on existing imputation methods in the labor earnings inequality literature.

Arecent study on health care disparities provides the latest comprehensive summary of what can be measured, if not a practical guide to what we could, or should, do about it.