Research

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Last November President Joe Biden ushered in a bipartisan agreement that launched the most comprehensive infrastructure plan since Dwight Eisenhower was president and authorized the $25 billion Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956.
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An evaluation of popular climate policies finds the benefits of clean electricity standards and clean energy tax credits may outweigh the efficiency gains of carbon pricing—if this efficiency exists at all.
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"By conventional measures, only five democratic countries appear on the list of the 20 fastest-growing economies around the world between 1992 and 2013. But when you adjust the data based on my model, you get a much more nuanced picture."
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Despite rapid growth in IT investment and adoption over the last several decades, productivity has slowed down, according to accepted measures. But what if we’re simply measuring productivity incorrectly?
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Professor Dan Black and co-author are the first to demonstrate that the Earned Income Tax Credit helps women move to economic opportunity.
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As several state and local governments consider bills that prohibit teaching about sexual identity and issues around race, there is no public consensus about the role of public schools in teaching children about these issues, according to a new study.