States fret over losing their young, educated workers, and many are scrambling for ways to stop the outward flow.

Immigrants have become a lightning rod for the resentment of native-born taxpayers who disapprove of extra spending on social services.

Recent studies, which have attempted to determine what causes an industrial sector in a state to grow, have ignored the general role of the state's economic development agency. We extend the analysis to include its effect, and determine that economic development expenditure by the state is a...

States create incentives to keep their best and brightest. But do they work?

Seemingly obvious migration patterns belie the many reasons why and where people move.