A key question for Social Security reform is whether workers respond to the link on the margin between the Social Security taxes they pay…
Scholars, including urban poverty researchers, have not seriously debated the important issues that Loïc Wacquant raised in his…
This paper introduces a family of multi-period poverty measures
derived from commonly used static poverty measures. Our measures
trade-off…
Female education levels are very low in many developing countries.
Does maternal education have a causal impact on children's…
Despite the high level of funding and policy interest in prisoner
reentry, there is still little rigorous scientific evidence to guide…
The notion of a “resource curse” has been most commonly applied in explaining why many countries apparently blessed with abundant reserves…
We exploit random assignment of gender quotas for leadership positions on Indian village councils to show that prior exposure to a female…
Much of the inequality literature has focused
on national inequality, but local inequality is also important. Crime
rates are higher in…