Public statistics on local economic activity, provided by the US Census Bureau's County Business Patterns (CBP), the Bureau of Economic…
States and districts are increasingly incorporating measures of achievement growth into their school accountability systems, but there is…
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is more than a decade old, but universal health care coverage in the United States remains elusive. An…
Health insurers increasingly compete on their networks of medical providers. Using data from Massachusetts’s insurance exchange, I find…
How do the different elements in the standard bundle of property rights, including those of possession and transfer, influence the shape of…
The 15th annual Education Next survey, conducted in June 2021, yields a host of specific results that reveal one large fact about the…
Calamities often disrupt the status quo. After the influenza pandemic that began during World War I and lasted two years, many Europeans…
Do urban children live more segregated lives than urban adults? Using cellphone location data and following the ‘experienced isolation’…
Will COVID-19 end the urban renaissance that many cities have experienced since the 1980s? This essay selectively reviews the copious…
How effective are restrictions on mobility in limiting COVID-19 spread? Using zip code data across five U.S. cities, we estimate that total…