Following an acrimonious healthcare reform debate involving charges of "death panels," in 2010, Congress explicitly forbade the use of cost…
Researchers have long known that poverty in childhood is linked with a range of negative adult socioeconomic outcomes, from lower…
This paper explores the possibility that governance indicators can be harmonized across three levels (within an individual ministry or…
The employment rate of native-born men falls at a much faster rate than that of immigrants as the two groups approach the age of retirement…
Book abstract: Written in an accessible style by highly respected scholars, the papers in this volume document and analyze particular…
All developed countries have been struggling with a trend toward health care absorbing an ever-larger fraction of government and private…
In the United States, health care technology has contributed to rising survival rates, yet health care spending relative to GDP has also…
One approach to urban areas emphasizes the existence of certain immutable relationships, such as Zipf’s or Gibrat’s Law. An alternative…
This article argues that the United States of America is quite different from other OECD countries in its religiosity (America is much more…
Book abstract: This collection assembles some of the country’s foremost social scientists in one volume. It contains diverse investigations…