COVID-19 has made service sector jobs much more dangerous. But, while the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released…
The effect of the coronavirus outbreak on the U.S. labor market has been profound. In the early weeks of the outbreak, the unemployment…
The Executive Session on Community Corrections has released a new paper entitled From Funnels to Large-Scale Irrigation: Changing the…
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…
A global priority for the behavioral sciences is to develop cost-effective, scalable interventions that could improve the academic outcomes…
Do 40-Year-Old Facts Still Matter? Long-Run Effects of Federal Oversight under the Voting Rights Act
In 2013, the Supreme Court struck down parts of the Voting Rights Act that mandated federal oversight of election laws in discriminatory…