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Can corruption make bureaucracies more efficient?
May 18, 2016
Testing the "efficient grease" hypothesis
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Does media bias matter in elections?
May 13, 2016
How politicians and voters respond to slanted media coverage
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When hospitals compete, do patients win?
May 6, 2016
One of the 2016 AEJ Best Papers gives a new meaning to "healthy competition"
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Are immigrants less likely to commit crimes when they gain legal status?
May 2, 2016
What happened when an EU expansion legalized thousands of immigrants in Italy
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Is climate change turning Indonesian fishermen to crime?
April 27, 2016
Piracy spikes when fishing income deteriorates
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Are taxpayers well-informed about the taxes they pay?
April 20, 2016
What online searches reveal about how people think about taxes
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How much tax revenue are we losing to offshore havens?
April 13, 2016
How corporations use low-tax countries to shelter their profits
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How valuable is access to the social safety net in early childhood?
April 6, 2016
The effects of the Food Stamp Program rollout are still visible decades later
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