Research Analysis
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Understanding the Impact of Immigration on Labor Markets: A Tale of Two Miamis
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In 2015, the United Nations estimated an international migrant population of 243 million people around the world. Immigration has been a recurrent phenomenon in many economies and prompts a continuous debate regarding its impact on socioeconomic indicators — particularly within the labor market. However, analyzing the effects of immigration on…
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How Fear of the Future Causes Political Gridlock
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Gridlock can occur even when the same political party controls both houses of the U.S. Congress, as we have seen through the beginning of the Trump presidency. Gridlock bogs down the wheels of bureaucracy and makes it difficult to agree even on legislation that is beneficial to both parties. A…
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Can a Low-Carbon Economy Grow GDP?
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In the face of climate change, the most effective way to ensure that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are slowed or stopped is by transitioning to a low-carbon economy. From an economic standpoint, however, this switch is no easy feat. A recently published study from the World Bank focuses on two…
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Evaluating the Impact of Minimum Wage Increases on Child Neglect
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During the most recent presidential election, the issue of raising the federal minimum wage was intensely debated. Political debates about the federal minimum wage often center on the effects of a minimum wage increase on employers’ labor decisions, changes in prices of goods and services and poverty alleviation among workers.…
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Innovation, Skilled Immigrants, and Why We Need More of Them
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The immigration debate playing out in the United States is beleaguered by concerns over whether unskilled immigrant workers are undermining the economic position of low-skilled American citizens. But concern over low-skilled immigration may be overshadowing discussion of high-skilled immigration, a less controversial but arguably more impactful domain of immigration policy.…
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How Big Data and Education Technology Are Changing K-12 Education
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Gone are the days when someone was overwhelmed with joy simply because Amazon or Pandora correctly discerned his or her tastes. It is no longer a secret that businesses are collecting consumers’ digital footprints and translating them into personalized services through cloud computing and machine learning in this era of…
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Building School Latrines in India to Increase School Enrollment
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UNESCO estimates that there are still 263 million children ages six to 17 years old who do not attend school. Of these children, 23 percent reside in India. One of the contributing factors to low enrollment in India is a lack of sanitation in school. Without school latrines, students are…
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Housing Relocation in Developing Countries: Opportunity or Isolation?
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Over the course of the last two decades, there has been a significant trend toward urbanization worldwide as the promise of jobs and wealth has driven many people to relocate. A record 54 percent of the world’s population now lives in urban areas, with the largest increases occurring in developing…
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Ethanol Cookstoves and Their Impact on Pregnant Women: Lessons from Nigeria
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In Nigeria and much of the developing world, kerosene and biomass fuels are used to provide energy for cooking, heating, and lighting. Reliance on these fuels leads to high levels of household air pollution (HAP), which causes 4.3 million premature deaths worldwide, according to a 2012 World Health Organization (WHO)…
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Halting Harassment: The Impact of Anti-Bullying Policies on LGBT Students
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Students across the United States wake up each morning afraid to attend school because of the daily difficulties they encounter as people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT). While acceptance of these groups has grown over recent decades, according to some societal metrics, this trend is difficult…
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Capturing the Economic Toll of Urban Gun Violence
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Every time a trigger is pulled in Minneapolis, the creation of 80 potential jobs is blocked. While the traumatizing effects of gun violence have been studied extensively, its impact on economic activity has remained largely unexplored. A recent Urban Institute report, “The Effect of Gun Violence on Local Economies,” establishes…