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November 13, 2023
How The IRS Discourages Boomer Charity
…and Jobs Act of 2017. The latter — its many virtues aside — has led some 90% of taxpayers to file for the “standard” deduction, eliminating their incentive to itemize…
November 11, 2023
Why is NYC Telling Teachers to Not Keep Kids Safe?
…that a student is missing school, coming in late or arriving unkempt and hungry. To them, the family may simply need some extra cash or a referral to standard support…
November 2, 2023
How Churches Can Make a Difference in the Lives of Children Who Need Foster Care
…who is in need of foster care and may want to provide it. So what are the obstacles standing in their way? According to Gallup, one is money. Black Americans…
October 31, 2023
It Takes Two
…effects of single parenthood? As Kearney notes, the gold standard in research is a randomized controlled trial in which there is a very specific “treatment” given to one group and…
October 26, 2023
Working from Density
Is the COVID-19-driven surge in remote work temporary or permanent? To assess how the geography of work may evolve, we analyze the pre-pandemic status quo. Casual theorizing might suggest that…
October 25, 2023
The Freedom to Choose
…any price regardless of its costs to national independence and well-being. This idealization of one-earner families radically discounts the value of the higher living standards Americans have enjoyed over the past 75…
October 23, 2023
Teach Your Children Well
…on to become top players. Chess rewards kids for patience. And this, says Moskowitz, is one of the keys to her students doing well in school and particularly on standardized…
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…