The health equity mandate.

People of color and the poor die younger than the White and prosperous. And when they are alive, they are sicker. Health inequity is morally tragic.

Revisiting Incentive-Based Contracts.

Incentive-based pay is rational, intuitive, and popular. Agency theory tells us that a principal seeking to align its incentives with an agent's should be able to simply pay the agent to achieve the principal's desired results. Indeed, this strategy has long been used across diverse industries-from executive compensation to education, professional sports to public service-but with mixed results.