Venezuela is grappling with an education crisis, marked by low quality and high teacher dropout rates. From 2018 to 2021, 25% of teachers left the system. However, many remain in schools, even when ...

Leadership development is a massive industry. But do these programs actually pay off for the leaders who participate in them? Through a series of experiments, surveys, and analyses of data from more ...

Hawaiʻi faces one of the nation’s most severe housing crises, with more than 64,000 new homes needed by 2027. This summer, Alissa Ji MPP 2027—who is concurrently earning her MBA at Stanford Graduate ...

Across the United States, state and local government-sponsored pension plans are in trouble. They are dangerously underfunded to the extent that their assets are unable to meet future liabilities ...

The Los Angeles Police Department is completing one of the most ambitious experiments in police reform ever attempted in an American city. After a decade of policing crises that began with the beating ...

As of Fall 2022, the PhD in Political Economy and Government (PEG) will no longer be admitting students. Students may apply to the PhD Program in Public Policy (PPOL), or consider the PhD Programs in ...

2022, Paper: "In a 2020 JAMA Viewpoint, Lawrence Summers and I guessed at the possible economic costs of long COVID.1 At the time, we thought the cost might be $2.6 trillion. With more data, that ...

Since the early 2010s, fintech companies have both gone directly to employees or partnered with employers to provide access to a portion of employees’ earned wages before payday. The growth of these ...

February 8, Audio: "To balance the federal budget, government revenue must meet or exceed government spending. That’s happened only twice in the past half-century: President Lyndon Johnson did it in ...

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Gazmararian presented his research including quantitative analysis of electoral behavior in Coal Country, surveys in the field at county fairs in Southwest Pennsylvania, and interviews with workers, ...

Industrial policy is back on the policy agenda. In the U.S., the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), the CHIPS & Science Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act are set to introduce $2 trillion in new ...