Recent medical literature suggests that vitamin D supplementation protects against acute respiratory tract infection. Humans exposed to…
Nation 1 is seeking to join the nuclear club. Nation 2, its enemy, would like to prevent this, and has the potential to destroy 1’s bomb-…
Excess prices for drugs in the U.S. is a persistently vexing policy problem. While there is agreement among most policy analysts that supra…
Sustained high economic growth since the early 1990s has brought significant change to the lives of Indian women, and yet female labor…
The power of Pan-Africanism as a guiding vision for the continent’s development is widely studied, mostly as an aspirational phenomenon. At…
This Working Paper challenges two widely held views: first that trade performance has been the primary reason for the declining share of…
We study an economy where intermediaries facilitate exchange between a supplier and consumers. The set of feasible transactions is…
Using a new dataset capturing the ideological positioning of nearly half a million U.S. judges and lawyers, we present evidence showing how…
The behavioral responses to taxes and subsidies are often subject to various behavioral biases and transaction costs—what we define as “…
The division of “basic” and “applied” research is embedded in federal R&D policy, exemplified by the separation of science and…