We examine the effects of exposure to malaria in early childhood
on educational attainment and economic status in adulthood by
exploiting…
Governments have responded to misleading advertising by banning it, engaging in counter-advertising and taxing and regulating the product.…
On Saturday, President Obama delivered a radio address on education and he didn't shrink from saying that American high school students are…
Boston, like many other major U.S. cities, experienced an epidemic of gun violence during the late 1980s and early 1990s that was followed…
An introduction is presented for this issue of the "Journal of
Quantitative Criminology" which includes articles about crime trends in…
Saving Schools traces the story of the rise, decline, and potential resurrection of American public schools through the lives and ideas of…
In the Medicare program, increases in cost sharing by a supplemental insurer
can exert financial externalities. We study a policy change…
Education choice exercises a powerful pull on parents of school children: Twenty-four percent report that they moved to their current…
Approximately 30 years have passed since Herman Goldstein (1979) first articulated the
basic principles of problem-oriented policing.…