Welfare economics examines the allocation of resources and its impact on individual and social well‐being. Rooted in classical notions of Pareto efficiency, the field has evolved to encompass a broad ...
Alden Abbott served as Deputy Director of Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation. The U.S. government should promote regulatory reforms here and overseas ...
Explore the welfare loss of taxation, its impact on economic well-being, and discover the costs associated with taxes, like ...
Seriously. How are you feeling about your economic situation? Because the unemployment rate is still near generational lows, inflation is down to 3.2%, and gross domestic product, or GDP, grew at a ...
EVERY JANUARY a curious migration occurs. Thousands of economists from around the world flock to a big American city for the annual meetings of the American Economic Association (AEA). The pandemic ...
The increase in U.S. income inequality since 1970 largely reflects gains made by households in the top 20% of the income distribution. Estimates suggest that households outside this group have ...
Since Congress overhauled the U.S. welfare system in 1996, single mothers between 18 and 24 have reduced welfare dependency, increased workforce participation, and registered gains in household income ...
Reader (Professor) in Development Economics, Department of Economics, SOAS University of London, and Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow, World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) ...