Congestion Pricing and Emergency Medical Service Response: Evidence from New York City

Earnings inequality among college graduates has grown, and returns to a bachelor’s degree (BA) vary substantially across colleges. We experimentally evaluate a program that shifted high-achieving, low-income students into higher-quality colleges. Students randomly offered a guarantee of four years of tuition and fees at the University of Michigan were 21 percentage points more likely to…

Please enable JavaScript if it is disabled in your browser or access the information through the links provided below. June 22, 2026 Federal Reserve notes with deep sadness the passing of Alan Greenspan For release at 8:45 a.m. EDT The Federal Reserve notes with deep sadness the…

Yes, women still need a “retirement security day.” Here’s why.

A May 29 article in the IMF’s F&D Magazine argues in favor of using U.S. tariffs as a policy tool. It begins by questioning the argument for free trade, claiming that economists have based U.S. and global trade policy on theoretical models rather than empirical evidence: “Tariffs were not tried and found wanting but rejected…

This report is part of a series of country reports on national tax expenditure regimes, published by the Council on Economic Policies (CEP) and the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), covering topics such as transparency, the fiscal cost of tax expenditures, benchmarking, evaluations and the political economy of tax expenditure reforms. DOWNLOAD in…

The tax justice movement awaits the publication of the first full draft of the UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation (UNFCITC). It is expected within the coming days. For those not intimately following the UN intergovernmental negotiations over the last two years, the Report of the High Level Panel on Illicit Financial Flows from…