In codifying its innovative operation into law, New York City has provided a useful guide for other localities.
This paper argues that the debt forgiveness provided by the U.S. consumer bankruptcy system helped stabilize employment levels during the…
Supreme Court justices employ law clerks to help them perform their duties. We study whether these clerks influence how justices vote in…
There are economically large costs of pretrial detention—and, by extension, the use of cash bail—due to the significant collateral…
The lesson from New York City's experience with Amazon: There are smarter ways to attract businesses than just dangling tax breaks.
Radical ideas are not unusual in the early stages of a US presidential election campaign, but many of the Democratic candidates for 2020…
As a project in Long Beach demonstrates, treating people as individuals rather than as statistics can yield big benefits.