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Are hospitals more like other businesses than we thought?

November 2, 2016

Health care providers didn't think the rules of the marketplace applied to them. A new study suggests they were wrong.

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Have green building codes succeeded in saving energy?

October 19, 2016

Energy savings from efficiency requirements prove hard to find

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What are the GDP data hiding?

September 26, 2016

Average incomes don't tell the whole story about the economic well-being of nations

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A new way to measure the impact of charter schools

September 19, 2016

Video from the AEA explaining researchers' new approach to a burning question in the world of education

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Does export manufacturing undercut education in industrializing countries?

August 22, 2016

How the spread of trade-oriented manufacturing in Mexico affected dropout rates

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Are colonial-era borders drawn by Europeans holding Africa back?

July 13, 2016

How the “Scramble for Africa” may still be fueling ethnic conflict

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One year of Research Highlights

June 29, 2016

Catch up on our most-read stories from the past twelve months

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Why does the economy do better when Democrats are in the White House?

June 20, 2016

Interpreting the post-war economic growth gap

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Was the U.S. banking system too systemic to fail in 2008?

June 8, 2016

Why future bailouts might still be required even if big banks are broken up

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Why are some schools surprisingly good at producing star math students?

June 3, 2016

Understanding the source of high math achievement