In this paper, we study the effects of immigration on natives’ marriage, fertility, and family formation across US cities between 1910 and…
An uncomfortable truth for American economists is that they have limited influence on economic policy. Take trade, for example. Anyone who…
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…
The disappearance and likely death of Jamal Khashoggi is a clarifying moment. If the crown prince of Saudi Arabia proves to be complicit,…
US President Donald Trump has called the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which succeeds NAFTA, “the single greatest agreement ever…
Tuesday was a great day for Iraq. For a country whose leaders have often disappointed, two exceptional people were tapped to be the highest…
On June 12-13, 2018, digital ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø welcomed public sector digital services teams from around the world to share stories of success, talk…
Do people hold politicians accountable for the performance of government? I test this question using individual-level experiences with the…
We offer the first quantitative analysis of rape culture in the United States. Observers have long worried that biased news coverage of…
The US economy is doing well. But the next recession – and there is always another recession – could be very bad. The US Bureau of Economic…