Welcome to Our Research Archive
Search and filter by content type, issue area, author, and keyword
November 14, 2023
The Comeback City
…was pervasive, and the economy had stagnated. From John Lindsay to David Dinkins, mayor after mayor had tried to tackle these problems. They had all failed. After three decades of…
November 13, 2023
Family’s Place in America’s Social Fabric
The family is arguably the most basic building block of community life.[i] But even as Americans continue to say their own families are centrally important in their lives[ii], family life…
November 9, 2023
What Dems — And NYC — Can Learn From The GOP’s Bronx City Council Win
…project — and dogged and undermined John Lindsay’s failed presidential campaign because of it. The controversy launched the career of an obscure Queens attorney, Mario Cuomo, who forged a compromise…
November 8, 2023
Measuring the Geography of Social Networks
Social interactions shape social and economic activity across a range of domains, from migration and trade flows to job search and investment behaviors. However, quantifying the effects of social interactions…
November 1, 2023
The Ultimate Social Capital: A Story to Save the Union
…with one another. Founding Father John Dickinson of Pennsylvania warned independence would result in “a multitude of Commonwealths, Crimes, and Calamities – centuries of mutual Jealousies, Hatreds, Wars and Devastations,…
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 16, 2023
Serve Students, Not Institutions
…physical therapy programs to help renew the ranks. Unfortunately, that’s just what the Maryland Higher Education Commission (MHEC) did recently when it voted to stop Johns Hopkins and Stevenson Universities…
September 25, 2023
As NYC Reels from Fentanyl Day Care Tragedy, Child Care Overdoses Are More Common Than We Think
…the children are always the victims in these things,” John Walters, former director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy during the George W. Bush administration, said…
September 18, 2023
“Player Piano” (Revisited) in the Age of AI
…John Averageman is interrogated, first by the character identified only as Radical. The two establish the fact that, when John worked as a machinist, his weekly pay was $145; as…
September 18, 2023
There’s an Easy Fix That Would Solve Our Housing Crisis: Light Touch Density
…rampant. As renowned planner John Nolan observed in 1917, building a range of housing types on varying lot sizes helps to ensure that new housing could be built that wage…