In May 1981, President François Mitterrand regularized the status of undocumented immigrant workers in France. The newly legalized…
The U.S. college wage premium doubles over the life cycle, from 27 percent at age 25 to 60 percent at age 55. Using a panel survey of…
Designing public transport networks involves tradeoffs between extensive geographic coverage, frequent service on each route, and relying…
Written for a PIIE conference on the 50th anniversary of floating exchange rates, this paper deals with possible alternatives to a unipolar…
Who deserves to participate in local democracy? A wide body of research shows that property owners are deeply overrepresented in local…
The study of urban and local politics in the United States has long been hindered by a lack of centralized sources of election data. We…
Addressing hospital emergency department (ED) overcrowding is a critical challenge for many healthcare systems worldwide. Many hospitals (…
We propose a model to study when an intermediate action can serve as a stepping stone that enables the elimination of a harmful norm. While…
We are today in the midst of a transition away from what has come to be called “neoliberalism,” with much uncertainty about what will…
This paper reviews and synthesizes the literature on the macroeconomic implications of human capital theory. I begin with a review of the…