High public debt often produces the drama of default and restructuring. But debt is
also reduced through financial repression (FR), a tax…
The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009 gave the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulatory authority over…
Many claim that China will soon overtake the US. I argue that this claim is based on a misuse of statistics. The International Comparison…
This paper examines the linkage between mobilization and elite capture in participatory institutions using a randomized experiment in Kenya…
Why do some countries incorporate language from international treaties into their constitutions? Why do others not do so? This is among the…
Like lay people, experts vary in their technology optimism or pessimism about scientific endeavors, for reasons that are poorly understood…