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Early voting laws can have significant effects on participation and the partisan composition of government.

Texas may show how to keep colleges open to poor students, while still providing a top-notch education.

How does being exposed to violence as a child affect the behavior of asylum seekers in their new host country?

Economists tackled populism, minimum wages, censorship, and more.

An experiment to get kids eating healthy shows how theories can miss key nuances in the real world.

A more nuanced understanding of diversity can help explain why some nations are better at fostering a common identity.

Having more black physicians could lead to better health among black men.

The AEA interviews Pierre Yared about why government debt keeps rising and how we can get it under control.

What effect does campus racial diversity have on the way whites act toward minority students?

Growing demand for hotels led to fewer, bigger firms in the 70s—but the business didn’t become any less cutthroat.