Pigouvian taxes and user fees can address environmental externalities and efficiently fund transportation infrastructure, but these…
Policy with concentrated costs often faces intense localized opposition. Both private and governmental actors frequently use financial…
One of our great urbanists and one of our great public health experts join forces to reckon with how cities are changing in the face of…
Housing policy is one of the most important areas of local politics. Yet little is known about how local legislatures and executives make…
Medicare Part D is an outpatient prescription drug benefit for older Americans covering more than 46 million beneficiaries. Except for…
The downsides of density, including traffic congestion, contagious disease and crime, were common in Victorian London and classical Rome,…
Will the Opportunity Zones (OZ) program, America’s largest new place-based policy in decades, generate neighborhood change? We compare…
We examine a new dataset of public procurement laws, practice, and outcomes in 187 countries. We measure regulation as restrictions on the…
How effective are restrictions on mobility in limiting COVID-19 spread? Using zip code data across five U.S. cities, we estimate that total…