Public policy work is hard, especially when one works in developing countries. It is even difficult to define what success looks like, and…
We revisit the well-known fact that richer countries tend to produce a larger variety of goods and analyze economic development through (…
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Social Costs of Pretrial Electronic Monitoring in San Francisco
In the year following Humphrey, a judicial decision mandating that judges consider both defendants' ability to pay cash bail and non-…
Redistricting reformers have proposed many solutions to the problem of partisan gerrymandering but they all require either bipartisan…
As governments, firms, and universities advance ambitious greenhouse gas emission goals, the demand for emission offsets – projects that…
Various hospitals in the U.S. and around the world suffer from the well-known problem of Emergency Department (ED) overcrowding, which…
Housing policy is one of the most important areas of local politics. Yet little is known about how local legislatures and executives make…
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the CHIPS and Science Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act authorized and appropriated…
This paper documents the impact of popular media on racial hate by examining the first American blockbuster: 1915’s The Birth of a Nation…
This paper synthesizes what economists have learned about human capital since Becker (1962) into four stylized facts. First, human capital…