A new paper concludes that ban-the-box policies actually reduce work opportunities for young, low-skilled black and Hispanic men with clean records.
The production of black market elephant ivory expanded by an estimated 66 percent following a one-time legal sale in 2008, a new study shows.
Even in a job where employees' only physical exertion involves answering the phone, air pollution takes its toll on productivity.
There are substantial differences in the credit card offers that banks extend to different potential customers.
Extension of Medicaid eligibility under the Affordable Care Act has not only shielded low-income Americans from out-of-pocket medical costs, but has also improved their overall financial health.
The housing market experiences of a person's friends can have large effects on that person's housing market beliefs and housing investment decisions, even if these friends live far away.
Disclosure of the Tuskegee syphilis study in 1972 coincided with increases in not only medical mistrust, but also mortality among black males.
Researchers find that media coverage of adverse market outcomes is correlated with investor crash beliefs.
Huge swaths of the Southern Great Plains were devastated in this human and environmental disaster of the 1930s. But did events really unfold as the popular account suggests? New evidence challenges conventional wisdom.
A bias against deciding the same way in successive situations can affect whether a foreigner is deported, a business gets a loan or a batter strikes out.
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