In this article, we review a growing empirical literature on the effectiveness and fairness of the US pretrial system and discuss its…
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Service-sector workers in the U.S. face extremely limited access to paid family and medical leave, but little research has…
This book collects the main papers written by George Borjas on the economics of immigration during a decades-long career. Although there…
The Handbook on Pretrial Justice covers the front end of the criminal legal system from pretrial diversion to pretrial detention or release…
To move forward on any of the challenges confronting Boston, we have to think about how we are — physically — getting there. Climate change…
How do high-profile acts of police brutality affect public trust and cooperation with law enforcement? To investigate this question, we…
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During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, states issued and then rescinded stay-at-home orders that restricted mobility. We…
The labor of workers in the retail and food service sector – employed at grocery stores, fast food and casual dining restaurants, in…
August 2021. GrowthPolicy’s Devjani Roy interviewed Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury, the Lumry Family Associate Professor at Harvard Business…