Which Americans experience the worst infrastructure? What are the costs of living with that infrastructure? We measure road roughness…
How do social factors affect the ability of individuals and communities to escape poverty? From social norms to gender and ethnic…
Many low-income households in the US miss out on social safety net benefits because of the information, compliance, and psychological costs…
Decades of low inflation led to widespread use of dollar-denominated financial instruments with fixed interest rates and long maturities.…
Who deserves to participate in local democracy? A wide body of research shows that property owners are deeply overrepresented in local…
Housing costs across the nation and in Greater Boston are rising, and many policymakers have turned to Inclusionary Zoning (IZ) in an…
December 30, 2022, Opinion: "Rapid advances in technology have made our lives remarkably convenient. Today, sitting in our homes, we can…
Health plans for the poor increasingly limit access to specialty hospitals. We investigate the role of adverse selection in generating this…
The article explores the ways in which pretrial incarceration affects job retention, job-seeking, and relative confidence or lack of…
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Social Costs of Pretrial Electronic Monitoring in San Francisco
In the year following Humphrey, a judicial decision mandating that judges consider both defendants' ability to pay cash bail and non-…