We describe the major features of a post-2012 international global climate policy architecture with three essential elements: a means to…
This paper introduces a family of multi-period poverty measures
derived from commonly used static poverty measures. Our measures
trade-off…
Evaluations of educational programs commonly assume that what children learn persists over time. The authors compare learning in Pakistani…
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Informal payments are a frequently overlooked source of local public finance in developing countries. We use microdata from ten countries…
The current banking crisis highlights the challenges faced in the traditional lending model, particularly in terms of screening smaller…
Interest in deliberative theories of democracy has grown tremendously among political theorists over the last twenty years. Many scholars…
What do Americans think about the US role in world affairs and why do they think the way they do? Americans typically do not think about…
Do legislators learn to use new communication technologies from each other? Using data from the official homepages of members of the U.S.…
This paper examines the impact of descriptive representation in comparative perspective. The goals are to establish (1) whether descriptive…