Welcome to Our Research Archive
Search and filter by content type, issue area, author, and keyword
June 5, 2025
More Evidence of How Housing Regulation Is Bad for Housing
The American Dream’s geographic escape hatch is slamming shut. New research reveals that once-affordable sunbelt cities like Phoenix, Dallas, and Miami now mirror the restrictive housing markets of San Francisco…
February 20, 2025
The American Dream Is Not a Coin Flip, and Wages Have Not Stagnated
…David Grusky, Maximilian Hell, Robert Manduca, Jimmy Narang, “The Fading American Dream: Trends in Absolute Income Mobility Since 1940.” Replication files available at https://opportunityinsights.org/data/?geographic_level=0&topic=0&paper_id=546#resource-listing. These results were the basis for…
January 7, 2025
More Skilled Immigrants for More Economic Growth
The recent appointment of venture capitalist Sriram Krishnan, an Elon Musk ally, to the incoming Trump administration sparked controversy on X (formerly Twitter) among MAGA supporters. The conflict arose from Krishnan’s past…
December 5, 2024
More High-Skill Immigration Is Popular. Let’s Act on That
This might be one of the most underappreciated facts of American public opinion: As controversial as the subject of immigration is, high-skill immigration isn’t controversial at all. A Pew Research…
November 21, 2024
A Consensus on Common-Sense Education Reform
Is common ground possible in an age of extreme polarization? Perhaps! “Toward a Potential Grand Bargain for the Nation” is a new report by a group of experts from think…
November 14, 2024
The Rotting of the College Board
…in school, no one could show up to a testing site, and the whole project was basically an extension of Jim Crow—so why bother? Colleges across the country went test-optional….
November 4, 2024
Again, Tariffs Didn’t Make American Manufacturing Great
Nationalist/populist conservatives, including the Republican nominee, claim that US economic history supports their views of trade protectionism. Donald Trump says “tariff” is “the most beautiful word in the dictionary” and…
October 14, 2024
Another Terrible Idea: Abolishing Child Welfare
…those family members may be suffering from severe substance abuse or mental illness. And again, she argues that, even if they were, it is the fault of slavery, Jim Crow,…
September 20, 2024
How Public Housing Fueled Boston’s Busing Riots
…ribbon on all-white Techwood Homes in Atlanta, reinforcing rather than challenging the city’s Jim Crow laws. Black neighborhoods across the U.S. were disproportionately cleared as “slums” and replaced by public…
June 23, 2024
Is Systemic Racism Responsible for the Increase in Child Mortality Rates?
…is the evidence for this? Surely the legacies of slavery and Jim Crow are still felt decades after they have ended, but the further we get away from these legal…