This paper examines the impact of cargo preference requirements, which create market power for domestic shipping companies, on the effectiveness of USAID's Food for Peace emergency food aid program.

This paper presents a data set that tracks effective minimum wage rates across the US states, including the District of Columbia, from January 1, 2011, to January 1, 2018.

Social service providers such as teachers, healthcare providers and homeless shelters receive trillions of dollars each year to help people. Recently, policymakers and other funders have attempted to obtain better outcomes by implementing performance-based incentive schemes that pay more money...

Using Census Bureau estimates of the market value of in-kind transfers and Current Population Survey (ASEC-CPS) data over the period 1979 to 2007, Burkhauser et al. (2012b) construct measures of income and its distribution.

This paper investigates whether two legislative changes aimed at empowering women did in fact lower the risk of domestic violence for women in India. We use the National Family Health Survey, a nationally representative household dataset to explore this issue. The first legislative change we...

This paper examines the avenues interest groups use to influence procurement decisions that are subject to legislative constraints that conflict with the provision of the government service or goods, such as "Buy American Laws." We first explore a theoretical model in which the government agency...

There are adjustment factors for early and late claiming of retirement benefits in Social Security which depend on the age when benefits are claimed. These adjustment factors are seriously out of date, as both interest and mortality rates have declined since the rules were designed and put into...

This paper integrates a microsimulation (partial equilibrium) model of tax policy with a dynamic scoring approach to tax policy analysis using a dynamic general equilibrium macroeconomic model. Both approaches have strengths and weaknesses. Our integration of the two models combines the strength...

Jorge Mario Bergoglio, since becoming Pope Francis in March 2013, is focusing on martyrdom in the Roman Catholic Church.

This paper highlights the policy uncertainty inherent in using stress tests, both to set minimum bank capital requirements and to assess the capital adequacy needed to maintain banking system stability.