William Jack's Papers

Working Papers

• Heckle and Chide: Results of a randomized road safety intervention in Kenya, with James Habyarimana

Public responses to Heckle and Chide
New York Times, Freakonomics
The Lancet, Vol 373, June 27, 2009
The Daily Nation, Nairobi, May 4, 2009
The Daily Nation, Nairobi, May 12, 2009
World Bank
Blattman Blog

• Too much of a good thing?: Potential economic consequences of donor-financed HIV/AIDS spending, with Karen Grépin


• Adverse Selection and Career Outcomes in the Ethiopian Physician Labor Market, with Joost De Laat


• Health worker preferences for job attributes in Ethiopia: Results from a discrete choice experiment, with Kara Hanson

Papers

• Health investments and economic growth: Macroeconomic evidence and microevonomic foundations, 2009, in Health and Growth, edited by Michael Spence and Maureen Lewis


• Conditioning aid on social expenditures, 2008, Economics and Politics


• Protecting the vulnerable: the trade-off between risk reduction and public insurance, 2007 World Bank Economic Review, with Shanta Devarajan


• Employee cost-sharing and the welfare effects of Flexible Spending Accounts, 2006, Journal of Public Economics, with Arik Levinson and Sjamsu Rahardja


• Social conflict and gradual political succession: An illustrative model, 2006, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, with Roger Lagunoff


• Optimal risk adjustment in a model with adverse selection and spatial competition, 2006, Journal of Health Economics


• Dynamic enfranchisement, 2006, Journal of Public Economics, with Roger Lagunoff


• Purchasing health care services from providers with unknown altruism, 2005 Journal of Health Economics


• Comparing the distortionary effects of alternative in-kind intergovernmental transfers, 2005, Public Finance Review


• Financing Pharmaceutical Innovation: How Much Should Poor Countries Contribute?, 2005, World Bank Economic Review, with Jenny Lanjouw


• The organization of public service provision, 2004, Journal of Public Economic Theory


• Contracting for health services: An evaluation of recent reforms in Nicaragua, 2003 Health Policy and Planning


• Institutional design and the closure of public facilities in transition economies, 2002, Economics of Transition


• Designing incentives for rural health care providers in developing countries, 2002. Journal of Development Economics


• Equilibrium in insurance markets with ex ante adverse selection and ex post moral hazard, 2001, Journal of Public Economics.


• The treatment of financial services under a broad based consumption tax, 2001, National Tax Journal.


• Controlling risk selection incentives when health insurance contracts are endogenous, 2001, Journal of Public Economics.


• Public Intervention in Health Insurance Markets: Theory and Four Examples from Latin America, World Bank Research Observer, 2001.


• Social investment funds: An organizational approach to improved development assistance, World Bank Research Observer, 2001.


• The public economics of tuberculosis control, Health Policy, 2001.


• Public spending on health care: how are different criteria related? A second opinion, Health Policy, 2000.


• Intergenerational risk sharing and health insurance financing, 1998, Economic Record.


• Welfare-Improving Health Expenditure Subsidies, 1997 American Economic Review (with Louise Sheiner).


• Production Efficiency and the Design of Temporary Investment Incentives, Journal of Public Economics (with Alan D. Viard), July 1996.


• Some Potential Effects of Tax Caps on Health Insurance Pricing and Coverage, National Tax Journal, 1994.