Informal payments are a frequently overlooked source of local public finance in developing countries. We use microdata from ten countries…
“Bad money drives out the good.” This sentence is universally known as Gresham’s Law — named for Sir Thomas Gresham, who is famous for six…
This paper studies long-term trends in the labor market performance of immigrants in the United States, using the 1960-2000 PUMS and 1994-…
200 nm diameter Au contacts were fabricated by e-beam lithography on sputtered thin film vanadium oxide grown on conducting substrates and…
This book is a dialogue about poverty in North America, especially in Mexico and the United States. Poverty has different roots and…
Iceland (1) has claimed the top spot of the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index 2009 from Norway (3) which slipped to third…
The savings, home values, and portfolios of U.S. families have been hard hit in the recent financial crisis, which has raised concerns for…
Book abstract: Can we trust our intuitive judgments of right and wrong? Are moral judgments objective? What reason do we have to do what is…
The literature on the use of performance measurement in government has focused much attention on hypothesized unintended dysfunctional…
Discrimination in a Low-Wage Labor Market: A Field Experiment. Bruce Western, October 1, 2009, Paper. “Decades of racial progress have led…