Outsourcing government service provision to private firms can improve efficiency and reduce rents, but there are risks that non-contractible quality will decline and that reform could be blocked by ve
Around the world, there are often contentious debates on whether or not to provide social safety net programs to the poor.
An interview with Professor Robert D. Putnam about his new book "Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis."
Urban change involves transformations in the physical appearance and the social composition of neighborhoods.
School choice systems aspire to delink residential location and school assignments by allowing children to apply to schools outside of their neighborhood.
From the late 1960s to the mid-1990s, a number of developments turned out to have profound effects on destitute families in the United States, which Kathryn J. Edin and H.
In this paper I sketch key episodes in the two thousand year history of interactions between society and environment that have shaped the City of London and its hinterlands.
Does the government control of school systems facilitate equality in school quality?
A housing lottery in an Indian city provided winning slum dwellers the opportunity to move into improved housing on the city’s periphery.
This brief provides a practical guide to collecting and compiling statistics on specific categories of informal workers – home based workers, street vendors, waste pickers and domestic workers.
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