Who deserves to participate in local democracy? A wide body of research shows that property owners are deeply overrepresented in local…
Housing costs across the nation and in Greater Boston are rising, and many policymakers have turned to Inclusionary Zoning (IZ) in an…
We estimate the causal effects of parental incarceration on children’s short- and long-run outcomes using administrative data from Sweden.…
We study the drivers of financial distress using a large-scale field experiment that offered randomly selected borrowers a combination of (…
This paper tests for bias in consumer lending using administrative data from a high-cost lender in the United Kingdom. We motivate our…
This paper argues that the debt forgiveness provided by the U.S. consumer bankruptcy system helped stabilize employment levels during the…
There is considerable variance in the productivity of teachers, yet educators have been unable to identify observable characteristics…