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Americans in their 50s and 60s are much less prepared for retirement than previous generations. But most Black families, with less…
Importance: The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) requires Medicare to negotiate prices for some high-spending drugs but exempts drugs approved…
This article tests for bias in consumer lending using administrative data from a high-cost lender in the U.K. We motivate our analysis…
In expanding its program that lets residents vote on public spending, New York City is enlivening democracy and engaging the electorate.
One in seven Americans received benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in 2011, an all-time high. We analyze changes…
For many Americans, cities have become a beacon of hope. They are widely recognized as engines of the U.S. economy and laboratories of…
The power of Pan-Africanism as a guiding vision for the continent’s development is widely studied, mostly as an aspirational phenomenon. At…
In the 1960s, public support for Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), a federal program that provided cash benefits to eligible…
Rema Hanna is the Jeffrey Cheah Professor of South-East Asia Studies and Chair of the International Development Area at the Harvard Kennedy…
Government forecasts of GDP growth and budget balances are generally more over-optimistic than private sector forecasts. When official…