What do the recent events in Egypt mean for the U.S.? The answer is a lot more complicated than it might seem. Egypt is important to the U.…
Efforts to green the building industry are strongly linked to
performance metrics such as Leadership in Energy and
Environmental Design (…
Political Instability: Effects on Financial Development, Roots in the Severity of Economic Inequality. Mark Roe and Jordan Siegel, February…
By putting together a relatively large data set on bilateral remittances of emigrants, this paper is able to shed light on the important…
Is culture an important determinant of preferences for redistribution? To separate culture from the economic and institutional environment…
On December 1–2, 2010, a group of senior representatives from government, industry, finance, and academia convened at Harvard Kennedy…
The problem of the commons is more important to our lives and thus more central to economics than a century ago when Katharine Coman led…
Book abstract: How have monetary policies matured during the last decade?
The recent downturn in economies worldwide have put monetary…
High U.S. incarceration rates have motivated recent research on the negative effects of imprisonment on later employment, earnings, and…
Sequencing the human genome provided a powerful new way to represent human identity, and the moral implications of that re-representation…