Patronage systems in the public service are universally reviled as undemocratic and corrupt. Yet patronage was the prevailing method of…
Over the past decade Iran has been cautiously, but steadily, putting in place all the elements it needs to construct a nuclear weapon in…
Because of the global commons nature of climate change, international cooperation among nations will likely be necessary for meaningful…
Human societies fashion themselves through rites of memory, gilding and illuminating
some pages of the past while consigning others to…
The introduction of the US. SO2 allowance-trading program to address the threat of acid rain as part of the Clean Air Act Amendments of…
Book abstract: When first published in 1980, The Declining Significance of Race immediately sparked controversy with its contentious thesis…
The NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics brings together leading American and European economists to discuss a broad range of…
During the five years from 2003 to 2007, global perceptions of risk were unusually low, as reflected in the market pricing of sovereign…
This paper reports an experiment in 640 Indonesian villages on three approaches to target the poor: proxy means tests (PMT), where assets…
We use a randomized experiment and a structural model to test whether monitoring and financial incentives can reduce teacher absence and…