Researchers have long known that poverty in childhood is linked with a range of negative adult socioeconomic outcomes, from lower…
This paper explores the possibility that governance indicators can be harmonized across three levels (within an individual ministry or…
A coherent consensus on where public workers stand, relative to their private-sector counterparts, is elusive. One reason is the complexity…
The employment rate of native-born men falls at a much faster rate than that of immigrants as the two groups approach the age of retirement…
Dramatic growth in nuclear energy would be required for nuclear power to provide a significant part of the carbon-free energy the world is…
They had a unique partnership, Washington, D.C.
Mayor Adrian Fenty and Public Schools Chancellor
Michelle Rhee did. Fenty placed a high…
I published The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks
and Changing American Institutions thirty-two years
ago, in 1978. Given the furor…
All developed countries have been struggling with a trend toward health care absorbing an ever-larger fraction of government and private…
In the United States, health care technology has contributed to rising survival rates, yet health care spending relative to GDP has also…