America’s regional disparities are large and regional convergence has declined if not disappeared. This wildly uneven economic landscape…
Recent research has stressed the importance of long-run place effects on income and economic mobility, but the literature has struggled to…
School choice systems aspire to delink residential location and school
assignments by allowing children to apply to schools outside of…
Data on 2,355 married women from the 2006 China Health and Nutrition Survey are used to study how female employment affects fertility in…
The US malpractice system is widely
regarded as inefficient, in part because of the time required to
resolve malpractice cases.…
Recent proposals to address housing market troubles through principal modification raise
the possibility that such policies could increase…
Even if the process of economic recovery proves protracted, the American economy will eventually recover, and cyclical issues will cease to…
This paper introduces a family of multi-period poverty measures
derived from commonly used static poverty measures. Our measures
trade-off…