Why are some places more entrepreneurial than others? We use Census Bureau data to study local determinants of manufacturing startups across cities and industries.
Matthew Bunn and Martin B. Malin examine the conditions needed for nuclear energy to grow on a scale large enough for it to be a significant part of the world’s response to climate change.
One Week in Heron City follows Chief Laura Harrison's through her first week on the job in this fictional city of 400,000.
The United States must change the way it produces and uses energy by shifting away from its dependence on imported oil and coal-fired electricity and by increasing the efficiency with which energy is
Societies around the world have experienced a flood of information from diverse channels originating beyond local communities and even national borders, transmitted through the rapid expansion of cosm
Book abstract: The Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements seeks to identify key design elements of a scientifically sound, economically rational, and politically pragmatic post-2012 inter
Corruption is a human condition and an ancient phenomenon.
For several decades now a debate has raged about policy-making by litigation.
We exploit experimental variation in repayment meeting frequency across micro finance groups to show that more frequent interaction among group members builds social capital and im- proves their fi na
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