In the wake of the Great Recession, policymakers and academics have expressed concerns about rising employer skill requirements. Using a…
We document the link between increased levels of economic and policy uncertainty and unemployment at the state-level during the 2007-2009…
In many countries, polling day ends with disputes about ballot-box fraud, corruption, and flawed registers. Which claims are legitimate?…
Carbon sequestration—the process of moderating global climate change by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it in long-…
The American judiciary has increasingly come under attack as polarized
and politicized. Using a newly collected dataset that captures the…
We show that contemporary differences in political attitudes across counties in
the American South trace their origins to slavery’s…
This paper reports the results of a pilot study, using a randomized controlled trial to study the effects of the Amherst Telementoring…
Recent empirical work has demonstrated the importance both of educational peer effects and of various factors that affect college choices.…
In 2010, the Gulf Coast experienced the largest oil spill, the greatest mobilization of spill response resources, and the first Gulf-wide…
The comparative advantage of a location dictates its industrial structure. Current theoretical models based on this principle do not take a…