Book abstract: This collection assembles some of the country’s foremost social scientists in one volume. It contains diverse investigations…
Improving Financial Access for Entrepreneurs in Developing Countries. Shawn Cole, March 2011 , Paper, "Providing incentives for…
Political Instability: Effects on Financial Development, Roots in the Severity of Economic Inequality. Mark Roe and Jordan Siegel, February…
High U.S. incarceration rates have motivated recent research on the negative effects of imprisonment on later employment, earnings, and…
The nation is plagued with one of the highest unemployment rates since the Great Depression. Not only have rates of joblessness risen…
Pooling data for 1905 to 2000, we find no systematic relationship between top income shares and economic growth in a panel of 12 developed…
Young people who grow up in high-poverty urban neighborhoods experience crime and violence, resource-poor schools, restricted labor markets…
Being Poor, Black, and American: The Impact of Political, Economic, and Cultural Forces. William Julius Wilson, Spring 2011, Paper. “…
Rethinking the Federal Bias Toward Homeownership. Edward Glaeser, 2011, Paper. "The most fundamental fact about rental housing in the…
Fertility and the Plough. Nathan Nunn, 2011, Paper. "Recent studies provide evidence that a significant portion of the cross-country…