Calamities often disrupt the status quo. After the influenza pandemic that began during World War I and lasted two years, many Europeans…
Empirical researchers and criminal justice practitioners have generally set aside history in exchange for behavioral models and…
We argue the revenue potential from increasing tax rates on capital gains may be substantially greater than previously understood. First,…
Do urban children live more segregated lives than urban adults? Using cellphone location data and following the ‘experienced isolation’…
Will COVID-19 end the urban renaissance that many cities have experienced since the 1980s? This essay selectively reviews the copious…
How effective are restrictions on mobility in limiting COVID-19 spread? Using zip code data across five U.S. cities, we estimate that total…
Disease is an old companion to urban life. The golden age of Periclean Athens was arguably ended by the plague that struck that polis in…
This study analyses the performance of macroeconomic policy in South Africa in 2007–2020 and outlines challenges for policy in the coming…
This paper contrasts two approaches to implementing the notoriously ambiguous ideal of sustainability: one driven by the centralized,…
This paper builds a new microdatabase that covers 100 countries at all income levels and long-run time series in the United States (1870–…