For a United States citizen, the short trip to Havana requires navigating an obstacle course, owing to the trade and travel embargo that…
Much of what we know about the marginal effect of pollution on infant mortality is derived from
developed country data. However, given the…
Book abstract: In the years following the global financial crisis, many low-income countries experienced rapid recovery and strong economic…
We estimate the effect of television on fertility in Brazil, where soap operas portray small families. We exploit differences in the timing…
Book abstract: When the 2008 housing market bubble burst in the United States, a financial crisis rippled from the epi-center in the United…
It is striking how often countries that are
rich with oil, minerals or fertile land have
failed to grow more rapidly than those without.…
As we consider over two decades of change in Bolivia, it now seems to us that understanding history involves adjusting short-term…
American fiscal policy has been procyclical: Washington wasted the expansion period 2001–2007 by running budget deficits, but by 2011 had…
Seven possible nominal variables are considered as candidates to be the anchor or target for monetary policy. The context is countries in…
Seven possible nominal variables are considered as candidates to be the anchor or target for monetary policy. The context is countries in…