Many of the issues it addressed, like migration and economic inequality, remain pressing today. For Rémon, “It’s one of the greatest works of Catholic social thought.” The encyclical ...

Modern macroeconomic theory claims that government spending, taxation, and monetary creation is essential for economic growth ...

However, much of what is known about the economic impacts of obesity comes from high-income countries and studies are not readily comparable due to methodological differences. Our objective is to ...

The downsides of trade with China have been significantly exaggerated. Data contradict the populist narrative of a resulting ...

Workers with a criminal record face a steep lifetime wage penalty, an effect which disproportionately affects minorities and ...

White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett insisted Thursday that Donald Trump “always wins,” even after ...

The World Economic Outlook (WEO) database is created during the biannual WEO exercise, which begins in January and June of each year and results in the April and September/October WEO publication.

History, Politics and Economics are brought to life in the exciting context of Russia and Eastern Europe, and combine some of the most important approaches for understanding the social, cultural, ...

a rarely used approach in observational studies in economics. We find that expansions increased Medicaid enrollment by 12 percentage points and reduced the mortality of the low-income adult population ...

Two research studies published this month add important ... as a working paper from the nonpartisan National Bureau of Economic Research — offers evidence that Medicaid, the public insurance ...

We quantify the amount of spatial misallocation of labor across US cities and its aggregate costs. Misallocation arises because high productivity cities like New York and the San Francisco Bay Area ...

A summary is included in this report, while the full version is presented in a separate report titled "Challenging Stigma in Social Housing - The Tackling Stigma Journey Planner report" Complementing ...