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Are Bilateral Remittances Countercyclical?

Discrimination in a Low-Wage Labor Market: A Field Experiment

Decades of racial progress have led some researchers and policymakers to doubt that discrimination remains an important cause of economic inequality.

Simple Strategies Drive Out the Subtle

“Bad money drives out the good.” This sentence is universally known as Gresham’s Law — named for Sir Thomas Gresham, who is famous for six words he never said and for a concept he did not invent.

Social Capital and School Sector Impacts on the Non-Cognitive Skills of Early Adolescents: Evidence from a Nationally Representative Longitudinal Survey

Estimates obtained from the first nationally representative longitudinal study of students in the United States in grades K-8, robust to both probit and propensity score matching models, provide empir

Electrical Triggering of Metal-Insulator Transition in Nanoscale Vanadium Oxide Junctions

200 nm diameter Au contacts were fabricated by e-beam lithography on sputtered thin film vanadium oxide grown on conducting substrates and current perpendicular to plane electron transport measurement

Informal Taxation

Informal payments are a frequently overlooked source of local public finance in developing countries.

Inequality in Cities

Much of the inequality literature has focused on national inequality, but local inequality is also important.

Poverty and Poverty Alleviation Strategies in North America

This book is a dialogue about poverty in North America, especially in Mexico and the United States.

Obama's Opportunity in Iran

President Obama's accusation that Iran has lied about a secret nuclear plant gives the United States the most important opportunity in years to pressure Tehran to forgo its nuclear weapons ambitions.

Screening in New Credit Markets: Can Individual Lenders Infer Borrower Creditworthiness in Peer-to-Peer Lending?

The current banking crisis highlights the challenges faced in the traditional lending model, particularly in terms of screening smaller borrowers.