We study the effects of Secure Communities, an immigration enforcement program that dramatically increased interior removals of Hispanic…
Housing policy is one of the most important areas of local politics. Yet little is known about how local legislatures and executives make…
In January 2022, the California State Assembly voted in support of a first-of its-kind labor bill, known as the Fast Food Accountability…
Amici curiae are 25 scholars who teach, write, and/or practice in the area of federal Indian law and federal Indian policy. The amici are…
As a growing number of jurisdictions across the country have attempted to implement bail reforms, debates have intensified about the…
This paper synthesizes what economists have learned about human capital since Becker (1962) into four stylized facts. First, human capital…
Why does social policy matter?Through data-driven research, hands-on training, and collaborative public engagement, the Malcolm Wiener…
Medicare Part D is an outpatient prescription drug benefit for older Americans covering more than 46 million beneficiaries. Except for…
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…