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A podcast featuring interviews with economists whose work appears in journals published by the American Economic Association.
More than two billion people around the world do not have safe drinking water at home. Piped water infrastructure remains out of reach for m...
Asian Americans are the fastest-growing racial group in the United States and are on track to become the largest immigrant group by 2050. Ye...
W. E. B. Du Bois is remembered as a civil rights leader, sociologist, and author of The Souls of Black Folk. But before he became famous for...
Guidance counselors generally advise college applicants to diversify their applications across schools they believe to be safeties, matches,...
Between 1997 and 2011, opioid dispensing in the United States more than tripled, fueling what would become the deadliest drug epidemic in Am...
The launch of Sputnik by the Soviet Union in October 1957 led to a geopolitical crisis that reshaped American science policy. Within months,...
Most Americans agree that housing costs are too high, often blaming developers and landlords. Many feel that the problem can be solved with...
Despite decades of civil rights legislation, many Black and White Americans, as well as other minorities, continue to live in racially homog...
For decades, the United States enjoyed what some called an exorbitant privilege—the ability to spend more than it earned without accumulatin...
US household income has grown significantly, but much of that growth seems to be at the very top of the distribution. Just how much inequali...
Drug prices have become a hot-button issue in the United States, with politicians across the spectrum agreeing that American consumers pay t...
Civil conflict has plagued much of Africa, with ethnically diverse countries experiencing particularly high rates of violence. Yet within th...
The Clean Air Act has been an essential tool for reducing air pollution in the United States. But standard estimation methods may overstate...
The patchwork nature of America's public safety net has evolved over centuries, shaped by political winds and changing views on poverty. Und...
A podcast featuring interviews with economists whose work appears in journals published by the American Economic Association.
Between 2006 and 2013, China's government poured enormous resources into its shipbuilding industry through various subsidies—from providing...
A growing number of US households hire advisers to assist with major financial decisions, such as planning life events or making portfolio c...
In 2017, then-President Trump signed into law the Tax Cut and Jobs Act, which was arguably the largest corporate tax cut in US history. The...
A half a century ago, new high-yield varieties of crops were introduced to India, and it transformed the country's farming. This so-called "...
Qualitative accounts of anthropologists indicate that social structure plays an important role in how resources are shared in society. But q...
The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) was launched at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in the hopes that it would keep businesses from la...
In 2005, Austria's most prominent far-right party proclaimed a "Third Turkish Siege of Vienna." The campaign warned voters that, like their...
In 1993, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was passed with bipartisan support and near universal endorsement by economists. In...
Since 2014, over 15,000 migrants have died or gone missing trying to make the voyage from the north coast of Africa to southern Europe. In r...
Timely publication of research in peer-reviewed journals is critical for economists seeking tenure and important for audiences looking for h...
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of vaccines, but it also underscored the reservations and low take-up rates among US citize...
In the middle of the day on Friday, March 10, 2023, bank regulators swiftly shut down Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), arguably averting a wider p...
Before Silicon Valley became a byword for innovation, Route 128 , outside of Boston, was America's technology highway, connecting the countr...
Numerous studies have highlighted the importance of effective teachers for student achievement. But new research suggests that school counse...
Some social scientists have postulated that governments are designed for the purpose of helping the powerful take resources from the less po...
Seven years before the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision ended the legal segregation of Black schoolchildren, California ended the l...
The bulk of education research focuses on the benefits of the traditional K–12 and higher education systems, while non-traditional programs...
The United States spends over a billion dollars a year on housing programs that give recently released prisoners a place to stay and modest...
The costs of Alzheimer's disease are significant. In 2021, it affected nearly 6 million Americans and accounted for an estimated 8 percent o...
For decades US policymakers have tried to achieve the universal health insurance coverage that many other developed countries enjoy. But des...
Around the world, female entrepreneurs borrow less than their male counterparts. Many people suggest that the reason for this gap comes down...
A wave of political demonstrations in recent years has grabbed headlines and helped to reshape the political landscape. But it's an open que...
Fans have frequently experienced the frustration of event tickets selling out in a matter of minutes and then being resold for twice as much...
Graduate school should be about learning how to push the frontiers of knowledge. Many students, however, also learn that getting a PhD can p...
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a form of counseling designed to change unhelpful patterns of thinking. A strong, evidence-based track...
When most Americans look for financial advice, they don't turn to academic journals for guidance. Instead, they're likely to get information...
Religion is a deep source of tradition and meaning for many people around the world, especially those in developing countries. But religious...
Major charity appeals can bring in hundreds of millions of dollars. But many worry that these efforts shift money away from other charities...
The pandemic has taken a toll on the education system. School enrollment has decreased, teacher turnover has ticked up, and students have ex...
Every year, hundreds of thousands of kids enter the US foster care system. And yet, improving their welfare remains an understudied topic am...
From the 1970s to the 1990s, the share of students leaving college with a degree steadily declined. But according to a paper in the American...
In the 1990s, drug manufacturers began marketing their products directly to consumers. Since then, prescription drug advertising has become...
Publicly available statistics on career earnings show that an economics degree pays far more on the job market than degrees in other social...
Black Lives Matter protests have put a spotlight on police abuses since 2014, but it has been challenging for researchers to assess the impa...
The COVID-19 pandemic has already significantly widened wealth and income disparities around the world. Poorer populations suffered higher r...