The elasticity of substitution between H-2B and U.S. workers is very low (0.8–2.2). Thus the effect on U.S. employment is zero or positive overall, and positive in rural areas. Forensic analysis suggests similarly low substitutability of black-market labor.

Migration is not a substitute for development, but a catalyst and major opportunity. Policy priorities include regional free-movement regimes, new destination-country partnerships, restructured skill-training systems for a mobile world, and integrating migration into aid partnerships.

The single most impactful action HUD could take to expand supply would be to allow states to preempt local density restrictions for projects funded by the HOME and the Housing Trust Fund (HTF) programs.

Credible policy analysis requires modeling choice frictions and supply responses and using experimental data in estimation.

A penetrating account of how, over many decades, conservative backlash to the administrative state led to the rise of a strongman presidency that threatens American democracy.

The Paperwork Reduction Act was enacted to reduce unnecessary paperwork and improve policymaking. But it fails to effectively realize these goals. This paper explains how we ended up with a statute that perversely undermines its purposes, what goes wrong (and right) in the status quo, and how to design a better Paperwork Reduction Act.

If Democrats want to rebuild state capacity on top of the ruins they will sooner or later inherit from Republicans, they need to think more carefully about what sort of state that should be.

The future of attention relies upon the lessons of its past, and explicitly recognizing the so-far hidden right to attention provides better ways of shaping its future.  

Providing students with full information about their abilities would increase the college and white-collar wage premia while reducing the graduation gap by family income.

Scholars and policymakers have likely missed the countercyclical benefits of regulatory costs because of informal, ad hoc macroeconomic assumptions embedded in regulatory analysis.