As with all public policy work, education policies are demanding. Policy workers need to ‘know’ a lot—about the problems they are…
We study the educational choices of children of immigrants in a tracked school system. We first show that immigrants in Italy enroll…
Many may judge that, in the cases of existing compulsory immunization programs and other health-related regulations, the benefits of…
This study analyses the performance of macroeconomic policy in South Africa in 2007–2020 and outlines challenges for policy in the coming…
This paper builds a new microdatabase that covers 100 countries at all income levels and long-run time series in the United States (1870–…
March 2021, the Confederation of African Football’s President, Patrice Motsepe, insisted that “An African team must win the World Cup in…
First, science generated without regard to questions about whose purposes it serves is not likely to persuade those who feel that their…
We compare two approaches to increasing tax revenue: tax administration and tax rates. We show that when Indonesia moved top regional firms…
It matters if public policies succeed in solving societal problems, but a dominant narrative holds that policies fail ‘often’. A large-…
We distinguish between ideational and interest-based appeals to voters on the supply side of politics, and integrate the Keynes-Hayek…