The savings, home values, and portfolios of U.S. families have been hard hit in the recent financial crisis, which has raised concerns for…
President Obama's accusation that Iran has lied about a secret nuclear plant gives the United States the most important opportunity in…
Much of the inequality literature has focused
on national inequality, but local inequality is also important. Crime
rates are higher in…
A disproportionately large amount of the world's agronomic potential for the production of bioethanol
is concentrated in a subset of…
China's rapid economic growth and development is being accompanied by needed reforms in its emerging financial markets. The government's…
Featuring all 23 policy proposals and 30 response essays presented at the American Society of Criminology's 2009 annual meeting,…
Estimates obtained from the first nationally representative longitudinal study of students in the United States in grades K-8, robust to…
Decades of
racial progress have led some researchers and policymakers to doubt
that discrimination remains an important cause of…
Informal payments are a frequently overlooked source of local public finance in developing countries. We use microdata from ten countries…