Chetty et al. (2022) say county density of cross-class friendships (referred to here as “adult-bridging capital”) has causal impacts on social mobility within the United States.
Human actions can alter the local and regional climate, particularly via land use.
I argue (like others before me) that the translation of evidence into policy is in itself a behavioral question with three major barriers or pain points: first, political actors need to know and value
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacted a historic toll on Americans’ health and longevity.
All development is about people: the transformative process to equip, link, and enable groups of people to drive change and create something new to benefit society.
As recently as 18 months ago, many policymakers, academics, and pundits in the United States and Europe were waxing lyrical about the geopolitical benefits of the coming transition to cleaner, greener
The United States spends substantially more on health care than most developed countries, yet leaves a greater share of the population uninsured.
Systemic racism is deeply embedded in U.S.
Many corporate ESG disclosure regulations rely on private activist pressure to enforce compliance, but relatively little is known about its effectiveness.
The American labor market has experienced dramatic changes since the start of the global COVID-19 pandemic in the early spring of 2020, with historic job losses followed by a sharp employment recovery
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