Inequalities in voter participation between groups of the population pose a problem for democratic representation. We use administrative…
David Stebenne’s “Promised Land: How the Rise of the Middle Class Transformed America, 1929-1968” invites us to remember those decades in…
The fast and often chaotic urbanization of the developing world generates both economic opportunity and challenges, like contagious disease…
Discusses fiscal challenges facing local governments due to Covid19.
Nearly a thousand officer-involved killings occur each year in the United States. This paper documents the large, racially-disparate…
The Covid-19 public health crisis has sharply reduced the earnings of millions of U.S. households, following the severe curtailment of…
The COVID-19 pandemic led to dramatic economic disruptions, including government-imposed restrictions that required millions of American…
We examine a new data set of laws and practices governing public procurement, as well as procurement outcomes, in 187 countries. We measure…
County governments are a crucial component of the fabric of American democracy. Yet there has been almost no previous research on the…
We live in the ‘urban century’. Cities all over the world – in both developing and developed countries – display complex evolutionary…