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October 23, 2023
Spatial Spillovers and the Effects of Fiscal Stimulus: Evidence from Pandemic-Era Federal Aid for State and Local Governments
Abstract We analyse whether US federal aid to state and local governments impacted economic activity through either direct or cross-state spillover effects during the COVID-19 pandemic. Deploying an instrumental-variables framework…
October 23, 2023
A Carbon Tax to Finance Child Tax Credit Expansion
A carbon tax is considered by most economists to be the most efficient and effective way to reduce carbon emissions. However, a long-standing political challenge to a carbon tax is…
October 20, 2023
Revenge of the Rust Belt: The Surprising Forces That Have Made the Midwest the Hottest Housing Market Around
…below historical averages nationwide. “Across the U.S., inventories stand at 3.1 months, meaning all homes on the market today will be on average sold by mid-January, just over three months…
October 13, 2023
Liberals Reap Consequences Of Their Homeless Policies
…long-standing policy known as “treat and street” — that is, treating the short-term needs of street homeless people — has begun to be replaced by the 120-day stays needed to…
October 12, 2023
The GOP Should Be the Party of Parents
Republicans looking to expand their party’s coalition have a problem. The public identifies them above all with Donald Trump, who is decidedly unpopular. Voters who can possibly stand Trump (and…
October 10, 2023
The Best Place for Kids Isn’t Always Their Home
…march her to the bathroom for an ice-cold shower; she would then have to stand in a corner for the rest of the night. She’d be shivering and it would…
October 6, 2023
After a Banner Year for School Choice, the Challenge Is to Ensure New Programs Work
…stand with families in a way that they’ve not been able to do before. Rick: One of the big developments of the past couple years is the proliferation of education savings…
October 5, 2023
DCS Has Failed Children It Was Supposed to Protect, This Lawsuit Shows Why
…collection and monitoring and holding them accountable for minimum standards of care. These lawsuits focus on children in foster care because federal courts have held that individuals in state custody…
October 2, 2023
Shopping for Colleges Just Got a Little Easier for Some Students
…standard language and format for financial aid award letters. And while “more government intervention” seldom seems to be the answer in higher education policy these days, in this case it’s…
September 29, 2023
How Well Is Rural America Doing? You’d Be Surprised
…very much a cosmopolitan elite in good standing. But that’s just part of her story. She also grew up in Danville, Pennsylvania, a town of about 5,000 in the heart of…