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…
One approach to urban areas emphasizes the existence of certain immutable relationships, such as Zipf’s or Gibrat’s Law. An alternative…
The penetration of formal insurance among low-income populations in developing countries remains low. Under such circumstances, some…
Despite significant advances in education and political participation, women remain underrepresented in leadership positions in politics…
While community policing represented a great change in how police officers did their jobs, it is now time for a new model for the 21st…
Many previous experiments have found that, consistent with myopic loss aversion, subjects invest more in risky assets if they are given…
Current approaches to government funding of social services create significant barriers to innovation. Funding streams tend to emphasize…
On December 1–2, 2010, a group of senior representatives from government, industry, finance, and academia convened at Harvard Kennedy…
One of the most fundamental obligations of any
society is to prepare its adolescents and young adults
to lead productive and prosperous…