Harris School of Public Policy Studies

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“The Impact of Incarceration on Employment, Earnings, and Tax Filing." Andrew Gar [...]

We study the effect of incarceration on wages, self-employment, and taxes and transfers in North Carolina and Ohio using two quasi-experimental research designs: disconti [...]

A recent wave of research in political science examines the past using statistical methods for causal inference and formal theory—a field widely known as historical polit [...]

Creating opportunities for people to achieve socioeconomic mobility is a widely shared societal goal. Paradoxically, however, achieving this goal can pose a threat to hig [...]

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The rapid emergence of vaccines and therapeutics in response to the onset of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic demonstrated the value of medical innovation. These advan [...]

How does social science insulate police from social movements’ demand for abolition? We explore this through a content analysis of policing social science research funded [...]

Background: Combined Heat and Power (CHP) systems can provide a range of benefits to users with regards to efficiency, reliability, costs and environmental impact. Fur [...]

The spot inspection policy has been widely applied in environmental protection in China. This paper collects environmental enforcement announcements and green patent data [...]

The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a principal component of global climate variability known to influence a host of social and economic outcomes, but its systemat [...]

In his seminal work on the political economy of dictatorship, Ronald Wintrobe posited the existence of a “dictator's dilemma,” in which repression leaves an autocrat less [...]

For many countries in the Global South traditional poverty estimates are available only infrequently and at coarse spatial resolutions, if at all. This limits decision-ma [...]

Novel carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies are increasingly being considered as potentially useful tools to combat climate change. For specific atmospheric carbon di [...]

Americans collectively hold over $1.6 trillion in student loan debt, and over the last decade millions of borrowers have defaulted on loans, with serious consequences for [...]

Justifying a proposed government regulation intended to reduce firearm violence requires a conceptually sound estimate of the monetized value of that impact and how that [...]

This article considers how cost-benefit analyses of farm animal policy would be altered if animal interests were to be directly included in the computations. Currently, a [...]

Importance: Access to appropriate postpartum care is essential for improving maternal health outcomes and promoting maternal health equity.

Objective: To analyz [...]

Anthropogenic land use change facilitates disease emergence by altering the interface between humans and pathogen reservoirs and is hypothesized to drive pathogen evoluti [...]

Unions sponsor electoral candidates around the world, yet little is known about the consequences of these arrangements. I study how union sponsorship affected the elector [...]

Scholars and policymakers have long been interested in measuring the relative property tax burden across cities. Most existing estimates rely on statutory rates and other [...]

A recently completed randomized controlled study in Nigeria that transitioned pregnant women from traditional fuels to ethanol in their cook stoves demonstrated improved [...]

Wynes and Nicholas (2017 Environ. Res. Lett. 12 074024) claim that some of the most [...]

We study how frictions originating from limited liability distort firms' investment and financing choices. By financing new investments with debt, firms can use limited l [...]

Moderates are often overlooked in contemporary research on American voters. Many scholars who have examined moderates argue that these individuals are only classified as [...]

This paper is positioned at the intersection of two literatures: partisan polarization and deliberative democracy. It analyzes results from a national field experiment in [...]