The United States faces more widespread health problems than other developed countries, and they are not distributed evenly across its population. Marcella Alsan, Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, discusses the issues and the way to approach policy solutions.
Behaviorally-informed “nudges” are widely used in government outreach, but face criticism for being too modest to address poverty at scale.
Community-based targeting, in which communities allocate social assistance using local information about who is poor, in experimental settings leads to nuanced allocations that reflect local concepts
Objective: We assess how the distribution of parents across firms contributes to parenthood wage gaps in a low-wage US labor market and examine the role of understudied compensating differentials rele
Advances in the scale and sophistication of individual income data compiled across high-income countries have enabled researchers to measure inequality and intergenerational mobility at a highly granu
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