The value of higher education has been under attack as seldom before in American history.
We are told of the overeducated American, of the case against college, and of the failure of …

While some political scientists have maintained that politics has little, if anything, to do with
governmental output, economists have looked at expenditures as reflecting median voter …

Human cooperation is highly unusual. We live in large groups composed mostly of non-
relatives. Evolutionists have proposed a number of explanations for this pattern, including …

Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism addresses major questions in distributive politics. Why is it
acceptable for parties to try to win elections by promising to make certain groups of people …

Abstract Turning the Paris Agreement's greenhouse gas emissions pledges into domestic
policies is the next challenge for governments. We address the question of the acceptability …

Overexploitation of renewable resources today has a high cost on the welfare of future
generations,,,,. Unlike in other public goods games,,,, however, future generations cannot …

Advanced Econometrics is both a comprehensive text for graduate students and a reference
work for econometricians. It will also be valuable to those doing statistical analysis in the …

Economists and others have long believed that by balancing the costs of such public goods
as air quality and wilderness areas against their benefits, informed policy choices can be …

This paper analyzes the drivers of carbon taxes acceptability with survey data and a
randomized labeling treatment. Based on a sample of more than 300 individuals, it assesses …

The widespread clamor for immediate dracomian action to reduce the danger of global
warming is an unjustifiable diversion of attention from the far more serious environmental …