You may have recently shared a holiday meal with a relative who has a bachelor’s degree, plenty of debt, and not much of a job. You may…
As the holidays approach, 2012 hasn’t provided much hope for the seasonal wish of “Peace on Earth.” Not when the headlines reveal the…
Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the killers from Columbine High School, were not members of a “trenchcoat mafia.” They did not listen to…
Charlie Rose Talks to Kenneth Rogoff. Kenneth Rogoff, December 20, 2012, Opinion. "It’s almost 2013. What do you expect to see,…
Just Rewards? Local Politics and Public Resource Allocation in South India, Rohini Pande, December 19, 2012, Paper, What factors…
On Saturday, Egyptians voted in a national referendum on the country's new constitution, drafted over the course of six months by a largely…
As the nation continues to grieve for the six adults and 20 children taken too soon in the Newtown, Connecticut, school shooting, a hero…
Colonial Institutions, Trade Shocks, and the Diffusion of Elementary Education in Brazil, 1889-1930. Aldo Musacchio, December 18, 2012…
Yet again we are struggling to bear the unbearable. How can we find meaning in the massacre of so many innocent children, savagely cut down…
Motivated by a novel stylized fact -- countries with isolated capital cities display worse quality of governance -- we provide a framework…