Buenos Aires and Chicago grew during the nineteenth century for remarkably similar reasons. Both cities were conduits for moving meat and…
This paper is an edited version of the Jerry Lee Lecture delivered at the Stockholm Criminology Symposium in 2018, the year in which…
The government should focus on making the project development ready at the time of award to attract more private sector interest, rather…
We conduct a disaggregated empirical analysis of civil conflict at the subnational level in Africa over 1997 to 2011 using a new gridded…
We report three findings. First, using evidence from chain bankruptcies and data on 12 million to 18 million establishments per year, we…
Reforming public-sector organizations--their structures, policies, processes and practices--is notoriously difficult, in rich and poor…
Data from digital platforms have the potential to improve our understanding of gentrification, both by predicting gentrification and by…
When avid fans describe their love of baseball — and here I include myself, as well as Susan Jacoby, the author of “Why Baseball Matters…
For many Americans, cities have become a beacon of hope. They are widely recognized as engines of the U.S. economy and laboratories of…
Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and staffed and supported by the Urban Institute, the US Partnership on Mobility from…