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An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictions. Amartya Sen, August 11, 2013, Book. "When India became independent in 1947 after two centuries of colonial rule, it immediately…
Why Is U.S. Economic Mobility Worse in the South? Cass Sunstein, August 8, 2013, Opinion. "Americans pride themselves on their intergenerational mobility. Our nation’s…
Crumbling American Dreams. Robert D. Putnam, August 3, 2013, Opinion. "My hometown — Port Clinton, Ohio, population 6,050 — was in the 1950s a passable embodiment of the American…
Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function. Sendhil Mullainathan, August 2013, Paper. "The poor often behave in less capable ways, which can further perpetuate poverty. We hypothesize…
U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence. William R. Kerr, August 2013, Paper. "High-skilled immigrants are a very…
The Decline, Rebound, and Further Rise in SNAP Enrollment: Disentangling Business Cycle Fluctuations and Policy Changes. Peter Ganong, Jeffrey Liebman, August 2013, Paper.…
Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in Great Britain and the United States Since 1850: Comment. Alexandra Killewald, August 2013, Paper. "Using historical census and…
The impact of changing family structures on the income distribution among Costa Rican women 1993-2009. Maximilian Kasy, July 31, 2013, Paper. "Changes in family structures, such…
Can we control ourselves? (2013 Aspen Ideas Festival Full Session). David Laibson, July 11, 2013, Video. "David Laibson speaks about self-regulation in retirement planning and…
JAMA Forum: For Physicians, a Choice Between Health Care Rationing or Delivering Health Care More Rationally. David Cutler, July 3, 2013, Paper. "The most important health care…