Government regulations influence virtually every interaction between a health care provider and a patient in the United States. Yet researchers have often struggled to capture the systematic role healthcare regulations play in health outcomes. The Healthcare Openness and Access Project (HOAP),...

This paper offers preliminary evidence of the extent to which global FDI patterns have responded to the sharp increase in trade barriers since 2018, focusing in particular on the impact of new United States tariffs imposed on imports from China. Using detailed project-level data on new...

This article provides information on databases and other projects operated by international organizations designed to preserve and distribute information of international interest, particularly legal information

Contributing to the recent revival in studies of the effects of the biographical characteristics of leaders, this paper presents an attempt at the most complete description to date of the world’s current leaders. The Global Leadership Project (GLP) provides the first dataset offering...

The Healthcare Openness and Access Project (HOAP) is a collection of state-by-state comparative data on the flexibility and discretion that US patients and providers have in seeking and delivering healthcare. HOAP combines these data to produce 41 indicators of openness and accessibility. In...

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is among the technologies with greatest potential leverage to combat climate change. According to the PRISM analysis, a technology assessment performed by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), wide deployment of CCS after 2020 in the US power sector alone...

Which capital inflows mitigate conflict? Conventional wisdom suggests that both aid projects and foreign private investment can increase the opportunity cost of conflict. Yet, the empirical evidence appears mixed. To investigate the impact of private finance for development on conflict, we...

Departing from traditional project management, this article focuses on cultural and localized differences and influences on a specific project activity, and furthermore on the specific influences on large important critical projects (also called “megaprojects”). It analyzes relevant...