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December 2, 2024
Why Has Construction Productivity Stagnated? The Role of Land-Use Regulation
…establishment size and productivity is causal, America’s residential construction firms would be approximately 60 percent more productive if their size distribution matched that of manufacturing. Read the full PDF here….
November 21, 2024
A Local Option for Natural Gas Fracking
…case that local communities should have the right to decide on the matter. As the Ukraine war grinds on and Europe remains desperate to import natural gas rather than rely…
November 20, 2024
Eliminate Federal Lending to Graduate and Professional Students; Revenue to Fund Block Grants to States
…making accommodations for the second-order effects of the proposed policy changes. The proposed policy changes will follow the format for a policy solution that was outlined in a previously coauthored…
November 19, 2024
A Trump Boom?
…on wages could match the progressivity of the current income tax system. Because some consumption goods are imported and some are exported (and not consumed domestically), this system would require a border-adjustment…
November 19, 2024
We Aren’t Testing Students on the Computer Skills They Actually Need
…again experienced the greatest decline, matching the –37-point decline in the computer literacy module. American students have performed poorly on international assessments for many years, but our economy outperforms every…
November 17, 2024
Affordable Housing—and No Tax Hike
…simple math that ensures future development will enrich rather than deprive communities. The new homes would generate $720 million in city sales tax receipts on construction materials over the decade,…
November 15, 2024
JD Vance is Right: Reduce the Power of Big Foundations to Help Charity
…matters as climate change (MacArthur), racial healing (Kellogg) or reducing incarceration (Open Society), donors overall, per the definitive Giving USA analysis, favor religious and human services far ahead of the environment…
November 14, 2024
The Rotting of the College Board
…and Andover to Harvard and Yale had once meant that university administrators had a pretty good idea of what they were getting when students matriculated. Maybe some were mediocre students…
November 14, 2024
Florida, the Forgotten Education-Reform Star
…the authors note, no other state matched Florida’s NAEP results in fourth-grade math among students eligible for free lunch. But perhaps most significantly, Florida ranks third nationally in fourth-grade reading…
November 7, 2024
Key Data on Federal Benefits Paid to Illegal Immigrant Households
Soaring illegal immigration during the Biden-Harris administration was a major campaign theme, with a pre-election Harvard poll finding Americans considered immigration the second-most important issue—right behind inflation and ahead of the economy….