Cities as Engines of Opportunities: Evidence from Brazil
Are developing-world cities engines of opportunities for low-wage earners?
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Creating student leaders through civics
Building on the literature of student leadership development, Natalie Sew, Adrianne Billingham Bock, and Danielle Allen share an approach to civic education: Deeper Civic Learning.
Building Non-Discriminatory Algorithms in Selected Data
We develop new quasi-experimental tools to understand algorithmic discrimination and build non-discriminatory algorithms when the outcome of interest is only selectively observed.
Starting health reform from here
My own preference is for incremental health reform rather than the teardown they advocate.
Which direction should we head to get to our North Star?
I was gratified to see Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein write, “if Furman and others like him are enthusiastic about trying to build momentum for a proposal for universal, automatic, basic coverage wit
The Election-Devaluation Cycle
In 1975, the Nobel laureate economist William D.
Appeasement Is Underrated
Rejecting diplomacy by citing Neville Chamberlain’s deal with the Nazis is a willfully ignorant use of history.
Parental Exposure to Work Schedule Instability and Child Sleep Quality
Recent scholarship has documented the effects of unstable scheduling practices on worker health and well-being, but there has been less research examining the intergenerational consequences of work sc
Local Money: Evaluating the Effects of Municipal Campaign Contributions on Housing Policy Outcomes
Money in politics is the subject of great debate at every level of government, yet it has principally been studied at the federal level in the US.
Legitimacy Revisited: Moral Power and Civil Disobedience
In Legitimacy: The Right to Rule in a Wanton World, I offer both a conceptual analysis of legitimacy, the power-liability view, and a substantive moral theory, the free group agency view.
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