An uncomfortable truth for American economists is that they have limited influence on economic policy. Take trade, for example. Anyone who…
When American voters head to the polls for congressional midterm elections in November, their choices seem likely to be guided more by “…
Recent research has stressed the importance of long-run place effects on income and economic mobility, but the literature has struggled to…
Even if the process of economic recovery proves protracted, the American economy will eventually recover, and cyclical issues will cease to…
This paper introduces a family of multi-period poverty measures
derived from commonly used static poverty measures. Our measures
trade-off…