By putting together a relatively large data set on bilateral remittances of emigrants, this paper is able to shed light on the important…
Is culture an important determinant of preferences for redistribution? To separate culture from the economic and institutional environment…
The problem of the commons is more important to our lives and thus more central to economics than a century ago when Katharine Coman led…
High U.S. incarceration rates have motivated recent research on the negative effects of imprisonment on later employment, earnings, and…
Sequencing the human genome provided a powerful new way to represent human identity, and the moral implications of that re-representation…
The most contentious aspect of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the individual mandate requiring that most…
Recently, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services announced a scheduled cut in Medicare physician fees of 27.4% for 2012. This cut…
Pooling data for 1905 to 2000, we find no systematic relationship between top income shares and economic growth in a panel of 12 developed…
The article discusses the
factors that contributed to the growth in transportation problems in
Jakarta, Indonesia. The key factors to…
David E. Campbell and Robert D. Putnam ask how America can simultaneously be religiously devout, religiously diverse, and religiously…