Explore evidence-based policy proposals from leading scholars to lower U.S. health care spending without compromising quality or requiring sweeping reform.

In a new impact report, Yale’s Tobin Center for Economic Policy’s documents its work to reduce the time between top-flight research and policy impact.

(Forthcoming Article) - We analyze consumer surplus when a monopolist can adjust both prices and product qualities across segments, engaging in second- and third-degree price discrimination simultaneously. We characterize the consumer-optimal segmentation and show that it has a striking structure: consumers with the same value receive the same quality in every segment, though prices differ. Under mild conditions, any segmentation harms consumers if and only if demand is sufficiently more elastic than supply. Hence, potential benefits for consumers depend critically on demand and supply elasticities. These findings have implications for regulatory policy regarding price discrimination and market segmentation.

Two multidisciplinary research teams are seeking to understand why AI systems become misinformed or misaligned with users’ intentions and to develop ways to make them safer, more reliable, and more ac...

Read concise, evidence-based memos explaining key facts and research behind major debates on U.S. health care costs, markets, and policy.

A Yale-trained theorist returned to campus this semester with a career that runs from Uganda’s foreign-exchange reforms to foundational work on how information and beliefs shape economic life.

A diverse group of students passionate about international development – Economics PhDs, IDE masters students, and our own Postgraduate Associates and Interns – are moving on. The Economic Growth Cent...