Since the enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation
Act, known as “welfare reform,” in 1996, US social policy has increasingly stratified …

Modern Labor Economics: Theory and Public Policy, now in its fourteenth edition, continues
to be the leading text for one-semester courses in labor economics at the undergraduate …

A mere two decades ago it was widely assumed that liberal democracy and the Open
Society it created had decisively won their century-long struggle against authoritarianism …

How does social spending relate to economic growth and which countries have got this right
and wrong? Peter Lindert examines the experience of countries across the globe to reveal …

If preferences on immigration policy respond to facts, widespread misinformation poses an
obstacle to consensus. Does factual information about immigration indeed affect policy …

Anti-immigration preferences among educated and racially egalitarian voters is hard to
explain using existing frameworks of self-interest or prejudice. I address this puzzle by …

US teacher education has largely overlooked a sociopolitical-historical context that affects
both immigrants and nonimmigrants: American empire. To address the pressing need for …

Throughout history, border walls and fences have been built for defense, to claim land, to
signal power, and to control migration. The costs of fortifications are large while the benefits …

Recent cohorts of US children increasingly consist of immigrants or the immediate
descendants of immigrants, a demographic shift that has been implicated in high rates of …

Immigrant supply shocks are typically expected to reduce the wage of comparable workers.
Natives may respond to the lower wage by moving to markets that were not directly targeted …