What can developing cities today learn from the urban past?
The downsides of density, including traffic congestion, contagious disease and crime, were common in Victorian London and classical Rome, just as they are today in Sao Paulo and Lagos.
Research
Horrible trade-offs in a pandemic: Poverty, fiscal space, policy, and welfare
Highlights • Fighting a pandemic in poor countries may involve not just a trade-off between lives and livelihoods, but an even more horrible trade-off between lives lost due to the pandemic and lives
Schedule Unpredictability and High-Cost Debt: The Case of Service Workers
High-cost financial services allow economically insecure families to make ends meet but often contribute to additional financial strain in the long run.
JUE Insight: The (non-)effect of opportunity zones on housing prices
Will the Opportunity Zones (OZ) program, America’s largest new place-based policy in decades, generate neighborhood change?
Good if you can get it: Benefits and inequalities in the expansion of paid sick leave during COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has focused attention on the important role that frontline retail, grocery, food service, and delivery workers play in the U.S.
Subnational economic conditions and the changing geography of mass Euroscepticism: A longitudinal analysis
Existing research mainly analyzes mass attitudes towards the European Union (EU) from the national and individual-level perspective.
End COVID-19 in low- and middle-income countries
Vaccines are changing the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, but in grossly uneven ways. Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) face considerable obstacles in both receiving and distributing doses.
The Limits of Ban-the-Box Legislation
Nationwide, 36 states and over 150 cities and counties have adopted what is widely known as “Ban the Box” (BtB).
Demystifying college costs: how nudges can and can't help
As US college costs continue to rise, governments and institutions have quadrupled financial aid.
COVID-19 and informal work: Evidence from 11 cities
This article presents the findings for 11 cities across five geographical regions from a study led by Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing, investigating the impacts of the COVID-1
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