The Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem (NDS) opened its doors in 1990, hoping to demonstrate the benefits of a community-based, team-…
Informal payments are a frequently overlooked source of local public finance in developing countries. We use microdata from ten countries…
Seminal thinkers of the nineteenth century – Auguste Comte, Herbert Spencer, Émile Durkheim, Max Weber, Karl Marx, and Sigmund Freud – all…
We analyze linear models with a single endogenous regressor in the presence of many instrumental variables. We weaken a key assumption…
This essay tries to explain some ways in which we can come to know about ourselves, in particular about what we think. It also tries to…
In this paper, we provide new evidence regarding the pass-through of diesel and gasoline
taxes to prices, and how the estimated pass-…
Solar radiation management (SRM), a form of geoengineering, might be used to offset some fraction of the anthropogenic radiative forcing of…
Book abstract: Countries with an abundance of natural resources, many of which are in sub-Saharan Africa, often show a record of relatively…
LIBERAL DIFFERENCES: Co-evolutionary patterns of advanced capitalism and political institutions in the UK and the US from the industrial…
Limits of Monetary Policy in Theory and Practice. Carmen Reinhart, October 2011, Paper. "The view that modest alterations to monetary…