Despite great focus on and public investment in STEM education, little causal evidence connects quantitative coursework to students’…
The bulk of global inequality is accounted for by income differences across countries rather than within countries. Expanding trade with…
Using the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data on the ability of women at various levels of schooling attainment on the ability of…
China and the United States together emit more than 40 percent of the world’s carbon dioxide (CO2) according to the latest available data.…
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Thomas Schelling, the distinguished economist, died on 13 December 2016 at his home in Bethesda, Maryland. He was 95 years old. Schelling…
The Truth About Blockchain. Karim Lakhani, January/February 2017, Paper, "The technology at the heart of bitcoin and other virtual…
Innovation Policy and the Economy: Introduction to Volume 17. Josh Lerner, 2017, Paper, "This volume is the Seventeenth annual volume of…
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Anticipation, Tax Avoidance, and the Price Elasticity of Gasoline Demand. John Coglianese, James Stock, February 2017, Paper, "…
Immigration and the Rise of American Ingenuity. Tom Nicholas, February 2017, Paper, "This paper builds on the analysis in Akcigit, Grigsby…