Many governments, civil society organizations, and international development agencies today seek to limit the use of pretrial detention in…
I published The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks
and Changing American Institutions thirty-two years
ago, in 1978. Given the furor…
Following an acrimonious healthcare reform debate involving charges of "death panels," in 2010, Congress explicitly forbade the use of cost…
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…
All developed countries have been struggling with a trend toward health care absorbing an ever-larger fraction of government and private…