With the United States in retreat under the banner of “America First,” outgoing Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo says ...

August 2020, Paper: "China’s real estate has been a key engine of its sustained economic expansion. This paper argues, however, that even before the Covid-19 shock, a decades-long housing boom had ...

December 15, 2019, Paper, "We develop a Bayesian latent factor model of the joint evolution of GDP per capita for 113 countries over the 118 years from 1900 to 2017. We find considerable heterogeneity ...

September 21, 2021, Paper: "We develop a measure of firm-year-specific human capital investment from pub licly disclosed personnel expenses (PE) and examine the stock market valuation of this ...

October 29, 2020, Audio: "Does Zoom mean we all work from home? Will cities bounce back? Will San Francisco and New York fade and smaller cities grow? What problems are the policies causing and can ...

October 24, 2020, Opinion: "Economists broadly agree that placing a price on carbon, whether through a cap-and-trade program or a tax, is a key element of an economically efficient suite of policies ...

November 10, 2021, Opinion: "How much could a cluster of pixels possibly be worth? More pointedly, why is it worth anything at all? The explosion of NFTs and their accompanying marketplaces have left ...

June 3, 2020, Paper, "We develop a Bayesian latent factor model of the joint long-run evolution of GDP per capita for 113 countries over the 118 years from 1900 to 2017. We find considerable ...

Why does states’ use of indiscriminate violence against civilians during civil wars weaken some insurgencies but strengthen others?

As of Fall 2022, the PhD in Political Economy and Government (PEG) will no longer be admitting students. Students may apply to the PhD Program in Public Policy (PPOL), or consider the PhD Programs in ...

September 3, 2021, Paper: "I study how people understand, reason, and learn about two major tax policies: income taxation and estate taxation. Using large-scale social economics surveys issued to ...

Manish Maheshwari MC/MPA Mason Fellow 2025 has witnessed firsthand the transformative power of technology—and the need to guide it responsibly. Second-year students share their experiences and helpful ...