As federal climate action falters, America’s mayors have a new plan to stop global warming: ban the use of natural gas in homes.While roughly 58% of American households use gas-powered stoves or heaters, research suggests that doing so is bad for our health an... More »
Author’s Note: On Nov. 8, 2021, Harris students received from Dean Baicker the shocking news that our classmate Samantha (Sam) Burton, MPP ’22, had passed away several days prior due to a sudden illness. In her honor, below is a Research-in-Review of a paper s... More »
Even before the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, socioeconomic inequality plagued cities across the globe. The pandemic itself has both deepened those existing wounds and ripped open new ones. In the United States, neighborhoods predominantly inhabited by pe... More »
At their best, cities are places where people of all income levels take the same train and play with their kids in the same park, bridging the gap and fostering a sense of community. In reality, the “tale of two cities” often seen in the differences between gl... More »
Campaigns to introduce what activists call “fair fares” on mass transit systems have recently taken root in U.S. cities. The idea behind these initiatives is to introduce a pricing system that is less regressive in order to promote equity for low-income riders... More »
Stock price data for a set of Chinese firms highlight the effects of information asymmetry created by differences in social trust between local and foreign investors. More »
A working FDIC paper examines the relationship between compensation, CEO risk behavior, and long-term firm solvency. More »
Will new regulations make the financial system safe or just ineffective? More »
A pair of researchers explain why our cities have been pulled apart and how we can mend them back together. More »