Following a string of scandals related to student attendance and graduation rates, an internal investigation by the District’s State Superintendent of Education found that 1,000 teachers lack the credentials necessary [...]
The House Committee on Higher Education and Workforce Development held a hearing last Wednesday to discuss occupational licensing. For those unfamiliar with the issue, it was an excellent primer on [...]
Research Hamilton Project policy proposal on barriers for nurses and physician assistants. In addition to determining who can and cannot practice medicine, occupational licensing restricts which licensed professionals can perform [...]
New Research The June 2018 issue of the Institute for Justice’s Liberty & Law is out. Included in this volume is commentary on Washington, DC’s requirement that day care professionals [...]
Welcome to capturedecon.wpengine.com, a new website dedicated to the problems of “regulatory capture” and “rent-seeking”—economist-speak for the pursuit of profits through politics. The capitalist market economy functions well when rival [...]
The role of licensing in driving up healthcare costs has been almost completely ignored. The apparent explanation is that nobody can imagine that there is any alternative. The obvious complexity [...]
"Despite research indicating that health, cost, and quality of care outcomes in midwife-led maternity care are comparable with and in some case preferable to those for patients with physician-led care, [...]
In recent years, college graduates have found themselves increasingly saddled with student loan debt. Even worse, many of these graduates fall behind on that debt sometimes through no fault of [...]
This article uses data from the Current Population Survey to analyze the role of professional certifications and occupational licenses in the U.S. labor market. It discusses the prevalence of these [...]
The use of nurse practitioners (NPs) in primary care is one way to address growing patient demand and improve care delivery. However, little is known about trends in NP presence [...]