One proposed strategy to expand primary care capacity is to use nurse practitioners (NPs) more effectively in health care delivery. However, the ability of NPs to provide care to the [...]
This report highlights the financial stress facing teachers in regions of fast economic growth and high property values. Teachers in the San Francisco Bay Area report far greater financial anxiety [...]
The costs of primary care have been rising and access to it may become limited because of a possible shortage in primary care physicians. Some state governments have addressed this [...]
Housing affordability has become the main policy challenge for most large cities in the world. Zoning, rent control, housing vouchers, and tax credits are the main levers employed by policy [...]
The patent system has, from its inception, involved a basic economic inconsistency. In a free-enterprise economy dedicated to competition, we have chosen, not only to tolerate but to encourage, individual [...]
It should be noted parenthetically that, while licensing causes the mean quality of legal practitioners to rise, by excluding those at the lower part of the qualitative range who could [...]
This monograph presents the results of an Educational Testing Service study, studies by the Council of State Governments, and research by the Department of Labor staff on State occupational license [...]
Regardless of these uncertainties, judicial intervention in the internal affairs of professional associations is destined to increase. The present century is widely interpreted as being in the throes of a [...]
Occupational licensing is invariably justified as a means of protecting the public against incompetent and dishonest practitioners. The effect of mandatory licensure, however, is often to restrict entry into an [...]
All of the regressions and test statistics generated to ascertain the effects on pharmacist availability consistently revealed the following: (1) Pharmacist-population ratios, the proxy for pharmacist availability, were found to [...]