The Covid-19 virus has killed over 200,000 people, overwhelmed health systems and confined billions of people in their homes.…
In today's G-minus-2 world, both the United States and China are providing bad leadership. By further weakening the internal cohesion of…
Nearly a thousand officer-involved killings occur each year in the United States. This paper documents the large, racially-disparate…
This book provides the first comprehensive economic valuation of U.S. National Parks (including monuments, seashores, lakeshores,…
Credit reports are used in nearly all consumer lending decisions and, increasingly, in hiring decisions in the labor market, but the impact…
Service sector jobs in the United States are characterized by low pay, few fringe benefits, and limited employee control over scheduled…
Against the backdrop of a global health crisis, service-sector workers are newly visible. While millions of American workers have been…
We develop new quasi-experimental tools to measure racial discrimination, due to either racial bias or statistical discrimination, in the…
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…