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Stéphane Mechoulan

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Assessing Racial Disparities In Parole Release, Stéphane Mechoulan, Nicolas Sahuguet Dec 2014

Assessing Racial Disparities In Parole Release, Stéphane Mechoulan, Nicolas Sahuguet

Stéphane Mechoulan

No abstract provided.


The External Effects Of Black-Male Incarceration On Black Females, Stéphane Mechoulan Jan 2011

The External Effects Of Black-Male Incarceration On Black Females, Stéphane Mechoulan

Stéphane Mechoulan

This paper examines how the increase in the incarceration of Black men and the sex ratio imbalance it induces shape the behavior of young Black women. Combining data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Current Population Survey to match male incarceration rates with individual observations over two decades, I show that Black male incarceration lowers the odds of Black non-marital teenage fertility while increasing young Black women's school attainment and early employment. These results can account for the sharp bridging of the racial gap over the 1990s for a range of socio-economic outcomes among females.


Altruism And Innovation In Health Care, Anupam Bapu Jena, Stéphane Mechoulan, Tomas J. Philipson Dec 2009

Altruism And Innovation In Health Care, Anupam Bapu Jena, Stéphane Mechoulan, Tomas J. Philipson

Stéphane Mechoulan

The joint presence of technological change and consumption externalities is central to health care industries around the world, because medical innovation drives the expansion of the health care sector and altruism seems to motivate many public subsidies. Although traditional economic analysis has proposed well-known remedies to deal with consumption externalities and inefficient technological change in isolation, it lacks clear principles for addressing them jointly. We argue that standard remedies to each of the two problems are inadequate. Focusing on U.S. health care, we provide illustrative calculations of the dynamic inefficiency in the level of research and development (R&D) spending when …


Divorce Laws And The Structure Of The American Family, Stéphane Mechoulan Jan 2006

Divorce Laws And The Structure Of The American Family, Stéphane Mechoulan

Stéphane Mechoulan

No abstract provided.