Risk-adjustment algorithms typically incorporate demographic and clinical variables to equalize compensation to insurers for enrollees who…
In the 1960s, public support for Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), a federal program that provided cash benefits to eligible…
In America, there’s a significant kind of public insistence that one’s “freedom” is fundamentally tied to one’s wealth.
Much of the…
This is the first installment of The Big Picture, a public symposium on what’s at stake in Trump’s America, co-organized by Public Books…
This article brings a new perspective to the analysis of the wage effects of the Mariel boatlift crisis, in which an estimated 125,000…
Child stunting in India exceeds that in poorer regions like sub-Saharan Africa. Data on over 168,000 children show that, relative to Africa…
This paper presents a conceptual account of urban governance in Mumbai as a rent-sharing system based fundamentally on control over urban…
The continuing inflow of hundreds of thousands of refugees into many European countries has ignited much political controversy and raised…
The author comments on Jennifer Hochschild's commentary on his article which analyzes the impact of collective joblessness across racial…
Robert Frank’s recent book, Success and Luck, is an engaging, partly autobiographical account of why and how most Americans underestimate…