Research

A new working paper offers the first systematic national analysis of the connection between rising asylum seeker populations and the dramatic increase in sheltered homelessness across the United States.

A recently published BFI working paper, "The Rise of Healthcare Jobs," delves into the rapid expansion of the healthcare sector, which is now the largest industry by employment in the United States.

Experiment finds that the cap-and-trade market in Gujarat, India reduced pollution by 20 to 30 percent while reducing industrial plants’ pollution abatement costs by more than 10 percent and increasing compliance with the law.

In recent decades, income inequality in the United States has become a very contentious policy debate. Critics argue that tax cuts for the wealthy, especially those enacted in the 1980s and sustained over time, have worsened the income gap.

In the history of authoritarian regimes, purges have been a common tool rulers use to maintain control by removing perceived threats. One of the most notorious episodes of purges took place during Joseph Stalin’s Great Terror of 1937-38.

n the 1980s, Brazil launched an ambitious campaign to eliminate Chagas disease, a neglected tropical disease (NTD) that primarily affects poor, non-white, and rural populations in Latin America.