The 15th annual Education Next survey, conducted in June 2021, yields a host of specific results that reveal one large fact about the…
Calamities often disrupt the status quo. After the influenza pandemic that began during World War I and lasted two years, many Europeans…
Empirical researchers and criminal justice practitioners have generally set aside history in exchange for behavioral models and…
Nudge interventions have quickly expanded from academic studies to larger implementation in so-called Nudge Units in governments. This…
We argue the revenue potential from increasing tax rates on capital gains may be substantially greater than previously understood. First,…
Do urban children live more segregated lives than urban adults? Using cellphone location data and following the ‘experienced isolation’…
Will COVID-19 end the urban renaissance that many cities have experienced since the 1980s? This essay selectively reviews the copious…
How effective are restrictions on mobility in limiting COVID-19 spread? Using zip code data across five U.S. cities, we estimate that total…
Disease is an old companion to urban life. The golden age of Periclean Athens was arguably ended by the plague that struck that polis in…
This study analyses the performance of macroeconomic policy in South Africa in 2007–2020 and outlines challenges for policy in the coming…