Research
Strengthening Safety Nets for the Poor
Anti poverty programs "??safety nets" provide poor households with essential help, from cash support to subsidized food and insurance.
Contracting Out the Last-Mile of Service Delivery: Subsidized Food Distribution in Indonesia
Outsourcing government service provision to private firms can improve efficiency and reduce rents, but there are risks that non-contractible quality will decline and that reform could be blocked by ve
Cash Transfers to Indonesia's Poor Don't Discourage Work
Around the world, there are often contentious debates on whether or not to provide social safety net programs to the poor.
A Candid Conversation about Schools, Culture, and the Widening Opportunity Gap in America with Professor Robert D. Putnam
An interview with Professor Robert D. Putnam about his new book "Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis."
Do People Shape Cities, or Do Cities Shape People? The Co- Evolution of Physical, Social, and Economic Change in Five Major U.S. Cities
Urban change involves transformations in the physical appearance and the social composition of neighborhoods.
The Distributional Consequences of Public School Choice
School choice systems aspire to delink residential location and school assignments by allowing children to apply to schools outside of their neighborhood.
Cashless Society
From the late 1960s to the mid-1990s, a number of developments turned out to have profound effects on destitute families in the United States, which Kathryn J. Edin and H.
London: A Multi-Century Struggle for Sustainable Development in an Urban Environment
In this paper I sketch key episodes in the two thousand year history of interactions between society and environment that have shaped the City of London and its hinterlands.
Does Public Sector Control Reduce Variance in School Quality?
Does the government control of school systems facilitate equality in school quality?
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