Luis Armona, Harvard Kennedy School researcher and assistant professor of public policy, believes a better understanding of the basic economics of firearms—why consumers buy them, how manufacturers price them, and how regulations like taxes affect the behavior of market participants—will lead to better policies, reduced violence, and possibly even buy-in from pro-gun interest groups.
This study evaluates the impact of text messaging interventions on voter registration updates in two scenarios: one involving unresponsive voters who provided phone numbers during registration, and an
We examine changes in the spatial distribution of good jobs across US commuting zones over 1980-2000 and 2000-2021.
As political issues have increased in complexity, public opinion researchers increasingly ask respondents about sophisticated political topics that may require substantive knowledge and analytic skill
Nearly 400,000 Black men were drafted into the National Army during World War I, where they toiled in segregated units and received little formal training.
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