Decades of low inflation led to widespread use of dollar-denominated financial instruments with fixed interest rates and long maturities.…
The study of urban and local politics in the United States has long been hindered by a lack of centralized sources of election data. We…
Housing costs across the nation and in Greater Boston are rising, and many policymakers have turned to Inclusionary Zoning (IZ) in an…
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The United States spends substantially more on health care than most developed countries, yet leaves a greater share of the population…
Incomplete health insurance enrollment is a persistent U.S. challenge despite large subsidies. We ask whether hassles built into enrollment…
Regulators of new products confront a tradeoff between speeding a new product to market and collecting additional product quality…
The share of US residents who were born in Latin America and the Caribbean plateaued recently, after a half century of rapid growth. Our…
Many groups in the US are focused on preventing the further rise of authoritarian forces by raising alarms about authoritarian power-grabs…
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Social Costs of Pretrial Electronic Monitoring in San Francisco
In the year following Humphrey, a judicial decision mandating that judges consider both defendants' ability to pay cash bail and non-…
Redistricting reformers have proposed many solutions to the problem of partisan gerrymandering but they all require either bipartisan…