Which Americans experience the worst infrastructure? What are the costs of living with that infrastructure? We measure road roughness…
Importance: The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) requires Medicare to negotiate prices for some high-spending drugs but exempts drugs approved…
Five groups rank state charter school environments according to their laws, regulations, funding, and other characteristics, but none rank…
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Unequal sorting of men and women into higher and lower-wage firms contributes significantly to the gender wage gap according to recent…
Job selection by high-skilled foreign-born workers in the US correlates strongly with country of origin. We use a Fréchet-Roy model of…
Background: Access to paid family and medical leave (PFML), including leave to care for a seriously ill loved one or recover from one's own…
We investigate whether increased racial diversity of clinical trial principal investigators could increase the enrollment of Black patients…
We study people's willingness to trade off civil liberties for increased health security in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic by…
Paid sick leave is essential for worker well-being and the public health, yet the United States does not have a federal law guaranteeing…
We document a sharp rise in gunshots coupled with declining 911 call volume across thirteen major US cities in the aftermath of the murder…