Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and staffed and supported by the Urban Institute, the US Partnership on Mobility from Poverty was tasked with answering one big, bold question: What W
Elementary school teachers’ math anxiety has been found to play a role in their students’ math achievement.
Previous literature has shown that land use regulations influence where people choose to live within the United States by impacting housing prices.
While the agenda of “beyond GDP” encompasses measurements that lie outside boundaries of the System of National Accounts, key aspects of individual well-being and social welfare can be incorporated in
In the 1960s, public support for Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), a federal program that provided cash benefits to eligible poor families with children, began to erode (Teles 1996).
Many organizations have budgets that expire at the end of the fiscal year and may face incentives to rush to spend resources on low-quality projects at year's end.
Can small search costs that constrain information acquisition and monitoring across the administrative hierarchy provide a substantive explanation for poor bureaucratic performance in the developing w
Can governments increase private savings by taxing savings up front instead of in retirement?
This paper presents a conceptual account of urban governance in Mumbai as a rent-sharing system based fundamentally on control over urban space.
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