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The Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem (NDS) opened its doors in 1990, hoping to demonstrate the benefits of a community-based, team-…
We analyze linear models with a single endogenous regressor in the presence of many instrumental variables. We weaken a key assumption…
I strongly doubt that President Obama has a secret agenda to increase American oil consumption, but anyone who looks at his highway-heavy…
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Last Thursday, the president urged Congress to pony up roughly $200 billion in taxpayer money to "provide more jobs for teachers [and] more…
In response to our sputtering economy, President Barack Obama presented a new stimulus package last week, hopefully titled the American…
Rick Perry of Texas is the latest in a long-line of governors who tout their states’ performance as evidence of their ability to…
Using the most comprehensive data file ever compiled on air pollution, water pollution,
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In 1941, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor ended American isolationism and brought our country into a global war that resulted in a…