Wetlands, Flooding, and the Clean Water Act
n 2020 the EPA narrowed the definition of 'Waters of the United States', significantly limiting wetland protection under the Clean Water Act.
Research
Growing Fairly: How to Build Opportunity and Equity in Workforce Development
The labor market in the United States faces seemingly contradictory challenges: Many employers have trouble finding qualified applicants for current and future jobs, while millions of Americans are ou
RCTs to scale: Comprehensive evidence from two nudge units
Nudge interventions have quickly expanded from academic studies to larger implementation in so-called Nudge Units in governments.
Tipping point dynamics in global land use
Agricultural land use has recently peaked, both globally and across country income groups, after centuries of expansion and intensification.
Achieving Gender Balance at All Levels of Your Company
It’s common for organizations to have gender parity or close to it in entry-level roles, only to see the percentage of women employees decrease as you get closer to the top.
On the Persistence of the China Shock
We evaluate the duration of the China trade shock and its impact on a wide range of outcomes over the period 2000 to 2019.
What the Federal Reserve Should Do Now: An Elaboration
The US economy has not fully recovered, and continued shortfalls in employment and gross domestic product (GDP) warrant continued expansionary monetary policy.
Strengths and weaknesses of the PJM market model
The core of the iconic PJM market design is a bid-based-security-constrained-economic-dispatch-with-locational-marginal-prices (BBSCEDLMP) model that works in theory and in practice.
China's overseas lending
Compared with China's pre-eminent status in world trade, its role in global finance is poorly understood.
Market expectations of a warming climate
We compare prices of financial derivatives whose payouts are based on future weather outcomes to CMIP5 climate model predictions as well as observed weather station data across eight cities in the US
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