Developing countries traditionally experience pass-through of exchange rate changes that is greater and more rapid than high-income…
Why was the Arab World Poised for Revolution? Schooling, Economic Opportunities, and the Arab Spring
What underlying long-term conditions set the stage for the Arab Spring? In recent decades, the Arab region has been characterized by an…
The Moving to Opportunity (MTO) for Fair Housing demonstration provided an opportunity for low-income renters to move to low-poverty…
The daunting complexity of important financial decisions can lead to procrastination. We evaluate a low-cost intervention that…
The plight of the middle class is shaping up to be a focus of the 2012 presidential campaign. This is as it should be, given the struggles…
The transportation of toxic inhalant hazards (TIH), primarily chorine gas and anhydrous ammonia, is a major concern for policy makers as it…
In a previous essay – following the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP-17) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (…
Since the end of the Cold War, security studies have broadened to take into account a wide range of non-military threats ranging from…
The essay discusses the negative effects of the politicization of
religion in the U.S. The authors note that modern U.S. partisan…