Governments around the world are increasingly recognizing the power of problem-oriented governance as a way to address complex public…
The promise of American democracy is at greater risk than at any time since the 1930s. Among the most important factors of America’s…
Since the inauguration of Donald Trump, there has been substantial and ongoing protest against the Administration. Street demonstrations…
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…
In expanding its program that lets residents vote on public spending, New York City is enlivening democracy and engaging the electorate.
This paper argues that the debt forgiveness provided by the U.S. consumer bankruptcy system helped stabilize employment levels during the…
As a project in Long Beach demonstrates, treating people as individuals rather than as statistics can yield big benefits.
As a publication, The State of Open Data will address the development of the open data movement over the past 10 years from a multitude of…
Few American historians of his generation have had as much influence in both the academic and popular realms as Alan Brinkley. His debut…