This article examines past research about reforming public sector management and encourages adopting a new form of accountability: one…
The central premise of the social capital approach is that social networks have value. Social capital refers to the collective value of all…
We study the local economic spillovers generated by LeBron James’ presence on a team in the National Basketball Association. Mr. James, the…
See the op-ed in The Boston Globe by Carr Senior Fellow John Shattuck.
An authoritarian nationalist regime in Hungary is…
We use high frequency data on traffic congestion from Google Maps to measure the impact of Jakarta’s main traffic congestion reduction…
Are the well-known facts about urbanization in the United States also true for the developing world? We compare American metropolitan areas…
Chinese housing prices rose by over 10 percent per year in real terms between 2003 and 2014 and are now between two and ten times higher…
The prevalence of many urban phenomena changes systematically with population size. We propose a theory that unifies models of economic…
A central challenge in securing property rights is the subversion of justice through legal skill, bribery, or physical force by the strong—…
Many countries have restructured their railroads and other network industries to require that network providers grant access to independent…