That Iran's nuclear challenge poses the most urgent threat to peace and security today is widely agreed across the national security…
Why do some armed groups commit massive wartime rape, whereas others never do? Using an original dataset, I describe the substantial…
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The literature on knowledge diffusion shows that it decays strongly
with distance. In this paper we document that the probability that
a…
Changes in quality and availability of information related to human rights violations raise questions about how best to use existing data…
Contrary to a small army of critics and "armchair quarterbacks," Professor Burns gives Secretary of State John Kerry a "job-well-done" in…
American politicians often take it for granted that national security would be enhanced by accelerating domestic oil production, through…
Conventional wisdom held that housing prices couldn’t fall. But the spectacular boom and bust of the housing market during the first decade…
Long before economics turned to psychology, environmentalists were nudging and framing and pushing their cause like highly gifted amateur…
The Decline, Rebound, and Further Rise in SNAP Enrollment: Disentangling Business Cycle Fluctuations and Policy Changes. Peter Ganong…
Debt Levels, Debt Composition, and Sovereign Spreads in Emerging and Advanced Economies. Ricardo Hausmann, August 2013. "This paper studies…