A large-scale experiment assessed the turnout effects of the “Neighbors” mailer, which exerts social pressure to vote by disclosing the…
During the Cold War, American actions — both hard and soft power — were steeped in information and data. Intelligence guided the stick —…
How Best to Tax Business. N. Gregory Mankiw, April 23, 2017, Opinion, "The details of the tax code may not make your heart sing, but…
Harvard's Amartya Sen Says European Unity Is Important. Amartya Sen, April 20, 2017, Video, "Amartya Sen, Nobel laureate and Harvard…
Larry Summers Sees More Downside Risks. Lawrence Summers, April 12, 2017, Video, "Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers said that…
Optimal Taxation and Insurance Using Machine Learning. Maximilian Kasy, April 10, 2017, Paper, "How should one use (quasi-)…
The flaws in the American electoral process have become increasingly apparent in recent years. The contemporary tipping point in public…
See the op-ed in The Boston Globe by Carr Senior Fellow John Shattuck.
An authoritarian nationalist regime in Hungary is…
Conceptual and Historical Foundations of Foreign Aid. Dustin Tingley, April 2017, Paper, "Foreign aid is a policy instrument of limited…
Interest Rate Conundrums in the Twenty-First Century. Samuel Hanson, March 31, 2017, Paper, "A large literature argues that long-term…