Using a new dataset capturing the ideological positioning of nearly half a million U.S. judges and lawyers, we present evidence showing how…
In America, there’s a significant kind of public insistence that one’s “freedom” is fundamentally tied to one’s wealth.
Much of the…
This article brings a new perspective to the analysis of the wage effects of the Mariel boatlift crisis, in which an estimated 125,000…
Popular commentary often points to the lower lifetime earnings and longer expected life spans of women relative to men as a reason to be…
Card’s (1990) study of the Mariel supply shock remains an important cornerstone of both the literature that measures the labor market…
Robert Frank’s recent book, Success and Luck, is an engaging, partly autobiographical account of why and how most Americans underestimate…
The author argues that the battle for the natural rights of citizens,including equality and freedom, must be reinvigorated. He reminds us…
The Federal government has spent billions of dollars to support turnarounds of low-achieving schools, yet most evidence on the impact of…
“Roxane Gay addresses the experience of living in a body that she calls ‘wildly undisciplined.’ She casts an insightful and critical eye…
“This volume confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and apologies to Native American…