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1. The Long‐​Run Effects of Immigration: Evidence across a Barrier to Refugee Settlement

2. The Political Economy of Anti‐​bribery Enforcement

3. The Economic Effects of the English Parliamentary Enclosures

4. Uncle Sucker: Why U.S. Efforts at Defense Burdensharing Fail

5. The Fiscal Impact of Immigration in the United States

6. The Impact of Regulation on Innovation

7. Balance of Trade, Balance of Power: How the Trade Deficit Reflects U.S. Influence in the World

8. Course Correction: Charting a More Effective Approach to U.S.-China Trade

9. The Vagaries of the Sea: Evidence on the Real Effects of Money from Maritime Disasters in the Spanish Empire

10. The Future of the WTO: Multilateral or Plurilateral?

11. The Regressive Nature of the U.S. Tariff Code: Origins and Implications

12. Global Inequality in Well‐​Being Has Decreased across Many Dimensions: Introducing the Inequality of Human Progress Index

13. Information Manipulation and Repression: A Theory and Evidence from the COVID-19 Response in Russia

14. Indian Nationalism and the Historical Fantasy of a Golden Hindu Period

15. Skilled Immigration, Task Allocation, and the Innovation of Firms

16. Rational Eviction: How Landlords Use Evictions in Response to Rent Control

17. Central Bank Digital Currency: The Risks and the Myths

18. Self‐​Service Bans and Gasoline Prices: The Effect of Allowing Consumers to Pump Their Own Gas

19. Formula for a Crisis: Protectionism and Supply Chain Resiliency—the Infant Formula Case Study

20. Welfare Implications of Electric Bike Subsidies: Evidence from Sweden

21. Jawboning against Speech: How Government Bullying Shapes the Rules of Social Media

22. The Black Hole of National Security: Striking the Right Balance for the National Security Exception in International Trade

23. The Human Perils of Scaling Smart Technologies: Evidence from Field Experiments

24. Behavioral Responses to Supply‐​Side Drug Policy during the Opioid Epidemic

25. A Shaky Foundation: The Myth of Authoritarian Stability in the Middle East

26. Practical Legislation to Support Cryptocurrency Innovation

27. Competition and Content Moderation

28. The National Flood Insurance Program: Solving Congress’s Samaritan’s Dilemma

29. Universal Preschool: Lawmakers Should Approach with Caution

30. The (Updated) Case for Free Trade

31. Biden and Trade at Year One: The Reign of Polite Protectionism

32. False Alarm over the Retreat of the Himalayan Glaciers

33. Unfair Trade or Unfair Protection? The Evolution and Abuse of Section 301

34. Monetary Policy and Racial Inequality

35. Opening Up Military Innovation: Effects of Bottom‐​Up Reforms to U.S. Defense Research

36. The Effect of Tax Avoidance Crackdown on Corporate Innovation

37. When Interventions Fail: Lessons from the U.S. Experience in Latin America

38. When Is Tinkering with Safety Net Programs Harmful to Beneficiaries?

39. Real Effects of Climate Policy: Financial Constraints and Spillovers

40. Slippery Fish: Enforcing Regulation under Subversive Adaptation

41. Policy Experimentation in China: The Political Economy of Policy Learning

42. The Regulatory Costs of Being Public

43. Evidence of the Unintended Labor Scheduling Implications of the Minimum Wage

44. Who Pays Sin Taxes? Understanding the Overlapping Burdens of Corrective Taxes

45. The Welfare Effects of Time Reallocation: Evidence from Daylight Saving Time

46. Trade Is Good for Your Health

47. A Brief History of U.S. Immigration Policy from the Colonial Period to the Present Day

48. Common‐​Sense Policy Reforms for California Housing

49. How Wealth Fuels Growth

50. Industrial Policy Implementation: Empirical Evidence from China’s Shipbuilding Industry

51. Effects of Sanctions on North Korea’s Refined Oil Prices

52. Inequality beyond GDP: A Long View

53. Impact of Colonial Institutions on Economic Growth and Development in India: Evidence from Night Lights Data

54. Discrimination, Managers, and Firm Performance: Evidence from “Aryanizations” in Nazi Germany

55. Why U.S. Immigration Barriers Matter for the Global Advancement of Science

56. The Smoot‐​Hawley Trade War

57. In Vaccines We Trust? The Effects of the CIA’s Vaccine Ruse on Immunization in Pakistan

58. The Intended and Unintended Consequences of Disposable Bag Regulation

59. The Economic Geography of Global Warming

60. Getting Schooled: The Role of Universities in Attracting Immigrant Entrepreneurs

61. A Tale of Three Headlines

62. Repeal, Don’t Replace, the AUMF

63. Fixing Mortgage Finance: What to Do with the Federal Housing Administration?

64. Herbert Hoover: Father of the New Deal

65. Publication Practices for Transparent Government

66. Fannie, Freddie, and the Subprime Mortgage Market

67. Scientific Misconduct: The Manipulation of Evidence for Political Advocacy in Health Care and Climate Policy

68. The Case for Auditing the Fed Is Obvious

69. Short Sales Bans: Shooting the Messenger?

70. Does the Doctor Need a Boss?

71. Massachusetts Miracle or Massachusetts Miserable: What the Failure of the "Massachusetts Model" Tells Us about Health Care Reform

72. High-Speed Rail Is Not "Interstate 2.0"

73. All the President's Mandates: Compulsory Health Insurance Is a Government Takeover

74. The Citizens' Guide to Transportation Reauthorization

75. A Fork in the Road: Obama, McCain, and Health Care

76. The Klein Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Polemics

77. Asset Bubbles and Their Consequences

78. FASB: Making Financial Statements Mysterious

79. Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae: An Exit Strategy for the Taxpayer

80. Rails Won't Save America

81. Does Barack Obama Support Socialized Medicine?

82. Greenspan's Monetary Policy in Retrospect

83. How Did We Get into This Financial Mess?

84. Is the Gold Standard Still the Gold Standard among Monetary Systems?

85. WHO's Fooling Who? The World Health Organization's Problematic Ranking of Health Care Systems

86. What Can the United States Learn from the Nordic Model?

87. Do You Know the Way to L.A.? San Jose Shows How to Turn an Urban Area into Los Angeles in Three Stressful Decades

88. Taiwan's Defense Budget: How Taipei's Free Riding Risks War

89. The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies

90. In Pursuit of Happiness Research: Is It Reliable? What Does It Imply for Policy?

91. Energy Alarmism: The Myths That Make Americans Worry about Oil

92. Escaping the Trap: Why the United States Must Leave Iraq

93. Why We Fight: How Public Schools Cause Social Conflict

94. Has U.S. Income Inequality Really Increased?

95. Cato Education Market Index Full Technical Report

96. The Cato Education Market Index

97. Effective Counterterrorism and the Limited Role of Predictive Data Mining

98. The Bottom Line on Iran: The Costs and Benefits of Preventive War versus Deterrence

99. Foreign Aid and the Weakening of Democratic Accountability in Uganda

100. Mexico Is Becoming the Next Colombia