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Securing Property Rights

A central challenge in securing property rights is the subversion of justice.

Food vs. Food Stamps: Evidence from an At-Scale Experiment in Indonesia

Governments seeking to provide food assistance have a choice between providing in-kind food directly to beneficiaries, or providing vouchers that can be used to purchase food on the market.

Reimagining Rights & Responsibilities in the United States: Gun Rights and Public Safety

In March 2018, hundreds of thousands of young people walked out of school and marched on their local statehouses and on the U.S.

Reimagining Rights & Responsibilities in the United States: Freedom of Speech and Media

The First Amendment guarantees some of the most fundamental rights provided to Americans under the Constitution. The right to free expression is a foundational tenet of American values.

Experimental Evidence on the Effectiveness of Non-Experts for Improving Vaccine Demand

We experimentally vary signals and senders to identify which combination will increase vaccine demand among a disadvantaged population in the United States – Black and White men without a college educ

Reimagining Rights and Responsibilities in the United States: Equal Access to Public Goods and Services

A right of equal access to public goods and services is rooted in the rights to ‘Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.’ With these rights, the Declaration of Independence asserts the concept of

Job Vacancies and Immigration: Evidence from the Mariel Supply Shock

We use the Conference Board’s Help-Wanted Index (HWI) to document how immigrant supply shocks change the number of job vacancies.

The Role of Leadership in Cultivating Collective Democratic Voice

Reimagining Rights and Responsibilities in the United States: Hate Crimes

The Department of Justice began prosecuting federal hate crimes cases after the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1968. Thus, the literature on hate crime is new, though rapidly growing.

Estimating the Costs and Benefits of Supported Quarantine and Isolation in Massachusetts: The Missing Link in Covid-19 Response

The slow rollout of vaccines against SARS-CoV2, the virus that causes Covid-19 disease, and the emergence of viral variants that threaten vaccines’ efficacy demonstrate the urgent need to bolster non-