Technology
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How Does Vocational Education Impact Income Gaps?
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Education plays an important role in countering inequality, and education policy can be an efficient tool for policymakers to reduce income disparities. According to the Economic Policy Institute, on average, a family in the top one percent of the U.S. income distribution earned 26.3 times as much as a family…
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Connecting the Disconnected: How Technology Can Accelerate Human Progress
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It is impossible to understate the impact that information and communication technology (ICT) has had on the social and political environment of the 21st century. Scholars have argued that improvements in ICT lead to significant economic growth—in part, by development assistance programs aimed at connecting people to the internet. This…
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Innovation and Climate Change: A Framework for Effective Environmental Policy
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Climate change and environmental degradation may be the greatest existential threats the world will face for generations to come. After entering in to office in January 2017, the Trump administration signaled that it would pull out of the Paris Climate Agreement, dealing a blow to the spirit of global cooperation…
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Fight for the Heavens: The Role of Religion in Shaping Attitudes toward Space Policy
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This piece, first published on April 1, 2016, is being republished as part of the Chicago Policy Review‘s 20th Anniversary Series. Please visit us here to learn more about the series from our Executive Editors. In recent years, NASA has increasingly focused its programs on space exploration and the search for extraterrestrial life. This is a…
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Influencing Innovation: Government’s Role in Subsidizing R&D
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Firms often underinvest in research and development (R&D) when there is no government intervention. There are many uncertainties and risks that discourage firms from investing in R&D, which slows the pace of innovation. To address this problem, governments can provide firms with subsidies to incentivize new product creation or improve…
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Technology as an Urban Solution to Economic Decline
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Research shows that US cities recover more quickly from economic crises when they possess a workforce with a technologically diverse knowledge base that can be readily applied to related areas.
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Fight for the Heavens: The Role of Religion in Shaping Attitudes toward Space Policy
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Religions pose some attitudinal influences toward space policy. These attitudes deviate the most from the wider population among Evangelical Christians.
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Renting While Black: Revealed Preferences in the Sharing Economy
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Evidence from a recent field experiment, based on data from Airbnb, demonstrates that racial discrimination persists on modern, online sharing marketplaces. Results indicate that guests with distinctively African-American names were found to be 16 percent less likely to be accepted by hosts on the site than guests with distinctively White…
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Opportunities and Challenges Associated with the Internet of Things
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Although the Internet of Things has major potential for economic opportunities, it still faces problems in data privacy, security, and other areas that have yet to be overcome.
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Can Drones Help Prevent Human Rights Abuses?
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Surveillance drones have the potential to deter and prevent human rights violations.
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Do Democrats Always Spend More on Science Funding?
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Contrary to popular perceptions, Democrats do not always spend more than Republicans on R&D.