Government proponents of prison labor should be mindful of the potential for negative effects, including increased incarceration rates and citizens’ deteriorating views on state...
The Covid-19 pandemic has decimated livelihoods in developing nations, and coronavirus-related deaths are rising in Africa and South Asia at an alarming rate. How...
A new study shows that exposure to an epidemic during one's “impressionable years” (18-25) has a persistent negative effect on trust in political institutions...
As the Covid-19 crisis evolves from a temporary shock into what seems like a long-term catastrophe, six finance scholars from Chicago Booth—Douglas Diamond, Steven...
A new paper seeks to examine whether police misbehavior is concentrated or diffuse by identifying whether highway patrol officers in Florida are more lenient...
A working paper finds that after sheriffs’ deputies in Florida were allowed to unionize, violent incidents increased by 40 percent.
In the aftermath of the...
In this episode of the Capitalisn't podcast, Kate and Luigi take an economist's look at the concept of defunding the police.
"Defund the police" has...