Patronage—the discretionary allocation of public sector jobs—continues to be a dominant way government is staffed in most Latin American…
As countries throughout the world democratize and decentralize, citizen participation in public life should increase. In this paper, I…
We use a rich dataset of weekly cigarette sales to examine how consumers adapt their behavior before and after excise tax increases -…
Humans naturally dispose of objects that disgust them. Is this phenomenon so deeply embedded
that even incidental disgust – i.e., where the…
The standard explanation of electoral reform is offered by rational choice accounts. These regard the choice of rules as an elite-level…
The goal of the workshop was to build a more strategic and integrated perspective on the threats and opportunities latent in the food /…
Understanding the relationship between female employment and fertility is a vital ingredient for effective population policy. This column…
For the last three years, the Atlanta Development Authority has come to Boston to try to sell our hottest industries, like life sciences,…
A number of development assistance programs promote community interaction as a means of building
social capital. Yet, despite strong…