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Policy

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  Policy

  How Uber Took Manhattan

  A Q&A on how startups can anticipate and navigate regulatory challenges.

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  Healthcare

  A Healthcare Policy Expert on Four Key Differences Between the ACA and the AHCA

  Craig Garthwaite explains how the GOP proposal could impact patients, insurers, and hospitals.

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  Economics

  School Shootings Rise and Fall with the Unemployment Rate

  Researchers set out to quantify gun violence at U.S. schools and made a surprising discovery.

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  Policy

  Companies Want to Hire the Best Employees. Can Changes to the H-1B Visa Program Help?

  The current lottery is not optimal for top foreign applicants or the companies that want to hire them.

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  Organizations

  Should You Hire Someone with a Criminal Record?

  Companies that give ex-offenders a fresh start may be rewarded with employees who stick around.

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  Policy

  What Volkswagen’s Emissions Scandal Can Teach Us about Why Companies Cheat

  Tighter standards may backfire in industries with fierce competition.

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  Policy

  Why Are We So Quick to Excuse Drunken Behavior?

  From criminal sentencing to corporate indiscretions, we hold people less accountable when alcohol is involved.

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  Healthcare

  Under the ACA, the Cost of Caring for the Uninsured Decreased for Hospitals

  The benefit has come only in states that expanded Medicaid.

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  Policy

  How Drinking Beer Is Saving Russian Lives

  Decades later, a Soviet public health initiative is still increasing male life expectancy.

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  Healthcare

  The Hidden Benefits of TV Drug Ads

  Patients and taxpayers benefit from controversial direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising.

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  Culture

  Why Sending Your Kid to the Best Possible School May Backfire

  Being surrounded by smarter peers can hurt test scores and incite disruptive behavior.

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  Policy

  Higher Taxes Can Make Altruistic Jobs More Attractive

  But subsidizing these careers may ultimately do more good.

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  Policy

  Christine Lagarde on Income Inequality, Brexit, and the Power of M&Ms

  A Q&A with the IMF managing director and Kellogg’s Sergio Rebelo.

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  Policy

  Does the H-1B Visa Program Hurt American Workers?

  At least in one industry, these applicants appear to take jobs others do not want.

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  Policy

  How Much Do Brokerage Firms Benefit from Political Connections?

  Politicians can’t trade on insider information—but the firms they talk to can.

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  Policy

  Abandoning the Electoral College Would Remake Campaign Spending

  A direct-vote system could have a sizeable impact on the behaviors of voters and candidates.

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  Culture

  Is Reading Someone’s Emails Like Entering Their Home?

  How conceptions of privacy change over time and how analogies pave the way.

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  Policy

  Can Raising the Capital Gains Tax Rate Ever Attract Investors?

  The traditional view that raising rates hurts firms deserves a closer look.

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  Policy

  How Much Will You Pay Today for a Better Tomorrow?

  How we answer that question has the power to shape climate-change policy.

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  Finance

  Why Did Car Sales Drop So Dramatically During the Financial Crisis?

  Even willing buyers were affected by a credit freeze.

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