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A multisource database tracking the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the communities of Boston, MA, USA

A pandemic, like other disasters, changes how systems work.

When Governments Use Nudges: Measuring Impact “At Scale”

Measuring What Matters: Principles for a Balanced Data Suite That Prioritizes Problem-Solving and Learning

Responding effectively and with professional integrity to the many challenges of public administration requires recognizing that access to more and better quantitative data is necessary but insuffic

A Stress Test for Politics: A Comparative Perspective on Policy Responses to COVID-19

This chapter presents interim findings of the Comparative Covid Response (CompCoRe) study, a qualitative comparison of policy responses to COVID-19 in 16 countries begun in April 2020?

Prospects for global economic convergence under new technologies

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, developing countries appeared to be generally on a converging path with income levels in the wealthiest countries.

The Moral Dimension of AI-Assisted Decision-Making: Some Practical Perspectives from the Front Lines

This essay takes an engineering approach to ensuring that the deployment of artificial intelligence does not confound ethical principles, even in sensitive applications like national security.

Technology and Local State Capacity: Evidence from Ghana

This paper studies the role of technology in local-government tax collection capacity in the developing world.

Let’s not abandon Russian scientists

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s brutal, unprovoked war against Ukraine deserves all the opprobrium it has received around the world.

Nowcasting the Local Economy: Using Yelp Data to Measure Economic Activity

Public statistics on local economic activity, provided by the US Census Bureau's County Business Patterns (CBP), the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), the Federal Reserve System (FRS), and state agen

Identifying and Measuring Excessive and Discriminatory Policing

We describe and apply three empirical approaches to identify superfluous police activity, unjustified racially disparate impacts, and limits to regulatory interventions.