May 26, 2021
There was a time not long ago when most economists tended to work by themselves.
In 1960, fewer than one in five economics journal articles had more than one author. Today, about three quarters of all papers are produced by research teams.
The shift toward collaboration has a lot of upsides for economists, including...
May 12, 2021
The first private prison in the United States opened in 1984 amidst the war on drugs and overcrowding in public prisons. Now a multi-billion dollar industry, private prisons incarcerate about 8 percent of all America's inmates.
In a paper in the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, University of...