Modern cities face many new challenges as a result of the ‘digital age’, in particular the uncertain promise of high urban benefits from…
As a result of working inside homes, city housing inspectors witness hidden and serious threats to public health. However, systems to…
To move forward on any of the challenges confronting Boston, we have to think about how we are — physically — getting there. Climate change…
How do high-profile acts of police brutality affect public trust and cooperation with law enforcement? To investigate this question, we…
August 2021. GrowthPolicy’s Devjani Roy interviewed Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury, the Lumry Family Associate Professor at Harvard Business…
The use of video surveillance in public spaces--both by government agencies and by private citizens--has attracted considerable attention…
We experimentally vary signals and senders to identify which combination will increase vaccine demand among a disadvantaged population in…
Nearly 1,000 officer-involved killings occur each year in the United States. This article documents the large, racially disparate effects…
Ten years after the onset of the Arab Spring, the Middle East and North Africa are torn between two visions of progress: a democratic one…
Previous Poverty and Shared Prosperity Reports have conveyed the difficult message that the world is not on track to meet the global goal…