To better prepare students for college-level math and the demands of the labor
market, school systems have tried to increase the rigor of…
During recent years, U.S. states have often diverged by adopting either more lenient or stricter electoral procedures. What have been the…
What has driven the worldwide adoption and subsequent revision of gender quota policies? This study argues that this phenomenon can be best…
It is understood that investment serves as a shock absorber in times of crisis. The duration of the drag on investment, however, is…
We study whether war service by one generation affects service by the next generation in later wars, in the context of the major US…
This essay analyzes the persistence of the death penalty in the United States--a topic that has long been the subject of debate among legal…
No matter which way you look at it, Chiapas is the most backward of any state in Mexico. Its per capita income is the lowest of the 32…
Some of the best-known papers of Carlos F. DÃaz Alejandro were about Latin America’s crises in the 1980s and 1930s. I will show data,…
From the streets of Hong Kong to Ferguson, Missouri, civil disobedience has again become newsworthy. What explains the prevalence and…
As shown in the 1930s by Hicks and Robinson the elasticity of substitution (s) is
a key parameter that captures whether capital and labor…