‘I get $1,460 in Social Security’: My millionaire ex-husband, 74, refuses to pay alimony. What can I do?

We study how residential-commercial zoning affects the allocation of urban space. Using property-level data from Taipei and 34 U.S. metropolitan areas, we infer neighborhood-level zoning wedges from the allocation of residents, workers, and floor space. We find substantially greater dispersion in these wedges in U.S. cities than in Taipei, where mixed-use development is pervasive. The…

How does a person’s own learning experience affect their ability to learn from others? We conduct a field experiment on chlorination in Pakistan, where randomized “learning-arm” households use a tool to track their children’s diarrhea before and after chlorine distribution. Learning-arm households with learning-arm neighbors chlorinate significantly more one year after the withdrawal of the…

News release Under plans in a consultation published today, funded reinsurance – which involves UK life insurers paying a large up-front premium to a reinsurer in return for future payments – would be treated more like other investments that UK life insurers hold, ending a regulatory inconsistency.   As a result, UK life insurers using funded…

New York City’s traffic is legendary. In 2024, congestion in the city was the worst in the United States, with delays per driver reaching 102 hours. In the same year, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), the operator of New York’s subways and commuter rail, saw a deficit of $8.3 billion. The combination of the two…

So the UK is set to have its 7th Prime Minister in ten years. In this time, it is no co-incidence we have seen a continued stagnation in living standards. At the root of the problem is a decline in productivity growth; the years of growth are over. Every prime minister had a plan for…

Minutes  Item 1: Introduction  The Bank introduced the first co-creation thematic engagement working group on synchronisation since the terms of reference were refreshed, outlining the group’s purpose, structure, and the context of ongoing synchronisation initiatives. The Bank explained that the co-creation working group is intended to gather focused input from industry participants to inform the design of a live synchronisation…