Economists get the opportunity and the responsibility of helping to design public policies. This implies that not only the big picture is necessary but also the details that will make those policies to actually work. This ...

Research over the past decade has shown increasingly polarized views of higher education in the United States according to party affiliation. For example, as of 2019, a minority of Republicans and independents who lean ...

Early voting is an increasingly common method of voting in U.S. federalelections. But the empirical record on its actual impact on turnout is mixed, with national surveys often finding negligible improvements to voter ...

In response to the massive human and economic losses across the country due to COVID-19, US federal policymakers provided unprecedented levels of funding to state and local governments, designed to support communities and ...

Recent years have seen increased calls for justice and equality across different ethnic groups in the United States. The present research focuses on income inequality and its effects on generalized trust. The question I ...

Prior research has identified a number of factors that are related to voter turnout, including socio-economic status, race, age, and sex. A substantial literature also suggests the existence of a positive relationship ...

Over the last decade, intergovernmental conflict in the United States has escalated in response to aggressive state curtailment of local policymaking power and autonomy. These municipal preemption laws are distinct from ...