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Benefits for older Americans — especially through Social Security and Medicare — account for the largest part of federal spending today and…
greement among negotiators from 12 Pacific rim countries on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) represents a triumph over long odds.…
Rethinking economics, from the inside out.
In the wake of the financial crisis and the Great Recession, economics seems anything but a…
Using survey data from the Promise Academy in the Harlem Children’s Zone, we estimate the effects of high-performing charter schools on…
Gender bias in the evaluation of job candidates has been demonstrated in business, government, and academia, yet little is known about how…
The paper reviews an event of 30 years ago from the perspective of today: a successful G-5 initiative to reverse what had been a…
Why should developing countries buy expensive catastrophe (CAT) insurance? Abstracting from risk aversion or hedging motives, we find that…
In 2007 a prominent British alternative-rock band, Radiohead, pre-released its album In Rainbows online, and asked their fans to “pick-…
It is tempting to view economic events in China through a single template: the view that they are driven by government intervention because…