Behaviorally-informed “nudges” are widely used in government outreach, but face criticism for being too modest to address poverty at scale…
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…
Health plans for the poor increasingly limit access to specialty hospitals. We investigate the role of adverse selection in generating this…
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-…
In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, the governments of most countries ordered the closure of schools, potentially exacerbating existing…
Nearly a thousand officer-involved killings occur each year in the United States. This paper documents the large, racially-disparate…
We estimate the causal effects of parental incarceration on children’s short- and long-run outcomes using administrative data from Sweden.…