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Cities on a Hill?

For many Americans, cities have become a beacon of hope. They are widely recognized as engines of the U.S. economy and laboratories of policy innovation and democratic deepening.

The Welfare Consequences of Taxing Carbon

For EMF 32, we applied a new version of our Intertemporal General Equilibrium Model (IGEM) based on the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).

Restoring the American Dream: What Would It Take to Dramatically Increase Mobility from Poverty?

Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and staffed and supported by the Urban Institute, the US Partnership on Mobility from Poverty was tasked with answering one big, bold question: What W

Land Use Regulations and Fertility Rates

Previous literature has shown that land use regulations influence where people choose to live within the United States by impacting housing prices.

Teacher Math Anxiety Relates to Adolescent Students' Math Achievement

Elementary school teachers’ math anxiety has been found to play a role in their students’ math achievement.

Measuring Individual Economic Well-Being and Social Welfare within the Framework of the System of National Accounts

While the agenda of “beyond GDP” encompasses measurements that lie outside boundaries of the System of National Accounts, key aspects of individual well-being and social welfare can be incorporated in

Do Expiring Budgets Lead to Wasteful Year-End Spending? Evidence from Federal Procurement

Many organizations have budgets that expire at the end of the fiscal year and may face incentives to rush to spend resources on low-quality projects at year's end.

Why Sociologists Matter in the Welfare Reform Debate

In the 1960s, public support for Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), a federal program that provided cash benefits to eligible poor families with children, began to erode (Teles 1996).

Having it at Hand: How Small Search Frictions Impact Bureaucratic Efficiency

Can small search costs that constrain information acquisition and monitoring across the administrative hierarchy provide a substantive explanation for poor bureaucratic performance in the developing w

The Politics of Welfare Policy: Towards Social Citizenship?