Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges
Leadership positions in the U.S. are disproportionately held by graduates of a few highly selective private colleges. Could such colleges…
The ability to exercise leadership effectively requires skills and capacities that must be developed; they are not innate. Leadership is…
The United States needs to build better infrastructure. The current repairs and replacements are disorganized and patchwork, resulting in…
Across US counties, vaccination rates have a statistically significant downward effect on the Covid-19 death rate, as of August 12, 2021.…
Policymakers and budgetary analysts have long argued that roads are heavily subsidized. The diffusion of spending among federal, state, and…
It is common for organizations to offer awards to motivate individual behavior, yet few empirical studies evaluate their effectiveness in…
Using a new dataset capturing the ideological positioning of nearly half a million U.S. judges and lawyers, we present evidence showing how…
This paper presents rough order-of-
magnitude estimates for the capital cost of the North South Rail Link (the “Link”), a proposed…
Should China build mega-cities or a network of linked middle-sized
metropolises? Can Europe’s mid-sized cities compete with global…
We often observe that more successful efforts to establish complex state capabilities are problem driven; focused relentlessly on solving a…