"America's educational system excels in at least one area: university-based research. Why? Miguel Urquiola, an … by showing how dominant American universities are in research, in part by developing a historical database of Nobel Prize … winners. He then traces the history of research at American universities from the seventeenth century until today, showing …

This paper examines pollution tax differentiation across industries in light of social equity concerns using … industries, even when social inequality aversion is low. Our results are robust with respect to the stringency of the …