Informal payments are a frequently overlooked source of local public finance in developing countries. We use microdata from ten countries…
The savings, home values, and portfolios of U.S. families have been hard hit in the recent financial crisis, which has raised concerns for…
The literature on the use of performance measurement in government has focused much attention on hypothesized unintended dysfunctional…
A standard result in regulation is that efficiency requires that marginal prices be set equal to marginal costs. This paper performs an…
Americans purchase health insurance in various ways. Some buy individual policies. For them, medical underwriting is common, and…
Why are some places more entrepreneurial than others? We use Census Bureau data to study local determinants of manufacturing startups…
Pharmaceutical expenditures have grown rapidly in recent decades, and now total nearly 10% of health care costs. Generic drug utilization…
We describe the major features of a post-2012 international global climate policy architecture with three essential elements: a means to…
Book abstract: Analytical sociology is a strategy for understanding the social world. It is concerned with explaining important social…
The United States must change the way it produces and uses energy by shifting away
from its dependence on imported oil and coal-fired…