As America faces the fiscal cliff, the impossible becomes conceivable. Finally, we face the possibility of reducing the home mortgage…
Oscar Niemeyer, who died last week, was a controversial giant. Best known for designing a new capital city for his native Brazil and the UN…
As Beacon Hill prepares to revisit transportation issues early next year, lawmakers should listen to happiness researchers, who have found…
We estimate the effect of television on fertility in Brazil, where soap operas portray small families. We exploit differences in the timing…
Should voters blame President Barack Obama for America’s current economic malaise?
The Mitt Romney campaign, hard as it tries, will find…
Do you have a picture in your head of what Greater Boston should look like in 50 years? Do you hope that we give something a little bit…
The past thirty years have seen a dramatic decrease in the rate of income convergence across U.S. states.
This decline coincides with a…
Many people in Massachusetts are talking about the need to attract and retain young workers, but we are hardly sending out the welcome…
John M. Quigley, who died last week, was a pioneering economist who helped change the way we think about housing. He devised statistical…
Popular discussions often treat the great housing boom of the 1996-2006 period as if it were a national phenomenon with similar impacts…