Synopsis: Recent years have seen extensive debate in popular commentary about a pervasive ‘cancel culture’ thought to be taking over…
A randomized experiment (N = 3,037) examines the impact of conditional and unconditional monetary incentives on response rates to a mail…
The political economy of the post-World War II West was shaped by normative understandings and institutional arrangements that scholars…
The seminal contributions of William Nordhaus to scholarship on the long-run macroeconomics of global climate change are clear. Much more…
What are the downstream political consequences of state activity explicitly targeting a minority group? This question is well studied in…
Despite robust economies, many local officials entered 2020 already worried about budget balances that looked fragile in the short term and…
The Tax Cut and Jobs Act (TCJA) slashed corporations’ median effective tax rates from 31.7% to 20.8%. Nevertheless, 15% of firms…
In one way of reading him, Thomas Hobbes – one of the founding spirits of modern political philosophy in the 17th century - thought it was…
Nearly a thousand officer-involved killings occur each year in the United States. This paper documents the large, racially-disparate…
We develop new quasi-experimental tools to measure racial discrimination, due to either racial bias or statistical discrimination, in the…