Health insurance premiums are primarily understood to pose financial barriers to coverage. However, the need to remit monthly premium…
Which Americans experience the worst infrastructure? What are the costs of living with that infrastructure? We measure road roughness…
Health plans for the poor increasingly limit access to specialty hospitals. We investigate the role of adverse selection in generating this…
Rising inequality in the United States has raised concerns about potentially widening gaps in educational achievement by socioeconomic…
The downsides of density, including traffic congestion, contagious disease and crime, were common in Victorian London and classical Rome,…
Will the Opportunity Zones (OZ) program, America’s largest new place-based policy in decades, generate neighborhood change? We compare…
Providing clean water requires maintenance, as well as the initial connections that are typically measured. Frequently, the water supply…
For decades, social theorists have posited—and descriptive accounts have shown—that students isolated by both social class and ethnicity…
For many Americans, cities have become a beacon of hope. They are widely recognized as engines of the U.S. economy and laboratories of…