Research roundups, tip sheets, articles and explainers related to the topic of economics and economic equality
2014 National Bureau of Economic Research study suggesting that it is better to tax unhealthy ingredients broadly rather than specific brands, goods and products.
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2014 interview with Richard Locke, of MIT and Brown University, who studies global labor and corporate responsibility issues.
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December 2013 study in International Studies Quarterly with a new view on the persistence of American power, supported by new data analysis.
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2013 study by the University of Oxford and the University of Sussex on the relationship between per-capita rents from natural resources and levels of public capital.
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2013 study published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston on the growing gap between the revenues that state and local governments receive and their mandatory long-term obligations.
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2013 study in State and Local Government Review on the nature of public-private service delivery and the potential benefits and risks of the various forms it can take.
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2013 study by the UMass Amherst and the U.C. Irvine in Social Forces on the effect of unions’ political activities on members’ levels of broader social engagement.
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2014 study for the National Bureau of Economic Research that focuses on the effectiveness of government anti-poverty policies since 1967, using the new measure from the U.S. Census Bureau.
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2014 study by the Research and Statistics Group of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on employment prospects for recent college graduates and historical patterns.
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2014 report from Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality summarizing recent research to paint a fuller picture of the nation’s economic health.
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