This paper tests for bias in consumer lending using administrative data from a high-cost lender in the United Kingdom. We motivate our…
Like many other states, Oregon has begun to pursue climate policies to attempt to fill the gap created by the lack of effective climate…
In this paper, we study the effects of immigration on natives’ marriage, fertility, and family formation across US cities between 1910 and…
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 international community has historically maintained hope that advances in science and technology offer humanity a wide range of options…
Using a new dataset capturing the ideological positioning of nearly half a million U.S. judges and lawyers, we present evidence showing how…
This paper presents rough order-of-
magnitude estimates for the capital cost of the North South Rail Link (the “Link”), a proposed…
Card’s (1990) study of the Mariel supply shock remains an important cornerstone of both the literature that measures the labor market…
A carbon tax provides certainty about the price of emissions, but it does so in a context characterized by uncertainty about its…
Concern about how American elections work has risen since 2000 and has been exacerbated by events during the 2016 campaign. To understand…