American policymakers have long focused on work as a key means to improve economic wellbeing. Yet, work has become increasingly precarious…
For three decades, advocates for climate change policy have simultaneously emphasized the urgency of taking ambitious actions to mitigate…
Credit reports are used in nearly all consumer lending decisions and, increasingly, in hiring decisions in the labor market, but the impact…
One of the core tasks of a well-functioning state is providing fair and adequate criminal justice. Recent events have raised concerns that…
Countercyclical fiscal policy generally focuses on national economic downturns. But US states experience significantly different patterns…
While a firm knows the carbon price with certainty under a tax, it must form an expectation about future allowance prices to identify its…
County governments are a crucial component of the fabric of American democracy. Yet there has been almost no previous research on the…
How do racial signals associating a candidate with minority supporters change voters’ perceptions about a candidate and their support for a…
The trade war has received an enormous amount of attention. Its impacts today have been limited because the U.S. and China have been a bit…
Polls report that, contrary to the evidence, one quarter of Americans believe that millions of illegal votes were cast in the 2016…