A common theme leading up to the 2020 election is that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) should be repealed and replaced.

We use new property-level data to estimate the price of land from 2000 to 2013 for nearly the universe of detached single-family homes in the Washington, DC metro area and characterize the housing boom-bust cycle in land and house prices at a fine geography. The data show that land prices were...

It is well established from research studies and basic data analysis that there is an exponential relationship between age and the infection to fatality ratio for COVID-19. Hence, the high mortality of the pandemic has been concentrated among the elderly. The close living arrangements of nursing...

The likely impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on state and local government revenues is increasingly well understood.

The authors study how the difference between federal and unitary systems of government can contribute to variations in economic volatility across democracies.

As inequality rises in the United States, the rich and poor are increasingly unlikely to interact with one another. Corinth and Finley use data on "311" calls reporting homeless individuals in New York City between 2010 and 2016 to determine whether the rich are more likely to see or interact...

This paper studies the urban development impacts of the civil disturbances that took place in Washington, DC following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968.

The existence of a home court advantage is one of the most durable empirical patterns in all of sports. Yet, the sociological and psychological mechanisms explaining its strength and persistence remain a mystery in large part because of well-known challenges with statistical identification. We...

This paper provides a distributional analysis of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that became law in December 2017, with implications for American households from changes in the individual tax provisions as well as in the corporate tax provisions.

Prompt Corrective Action (PCA) requires regulators to sanction banks before they become insolvent and to resolve institutions within 90 days of reaching critically undercapitalized status. Forensic studies of the financial crisis conclude that the PCA process not only failed to rehabilitate...