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October 22, 2014
Policy Analysis

No. 762
SSDI Reform: Promoting Gainful Employment while Preserving Economic Security
By Jagadeesh Gokhale
October 20, 2014
Policy Analysis

No. 761
War on Poverty Turns 50: Are We Winning Yet?
… truly lift people out of poverty. The failures of the War on Poverty should serve as an object lesson for policymakers today. Good intentions are not enough. We should not continue to throw money at failed programs in the name …
By Michael D. Tanner and Charles Hughes
October 15, 2014
Policy Analysis

No. 760
The Evidence on Universal Preschool
… long‐term benefits. These are the Abecedarian and Perry Preschool programs. However, using these two studies as the basis for policy is problematic for several reasons: the groups studied were very small, they came from single communities several decades ago …
By David J. Armor
July 30, 2014
Policy Analysis

No. 752
Rapid Bus: A Low-Cost, High-Capacity Transit System for Major Urban Areas
By Randal O’Toole
June 30, 2014
Policy Analysis

No. 751
Libertarianism and Federalism
By Ilya Somin
April 10, 2014
Policy Analysis

No. 747
Run, Run, Run: Was Financial Crisis Panic over Institution Runs Justified?
… highlighted no less than 10 cases of runs at individual institutions. Those runs were a major consideration in the shifting policy responses that authorities employed during the crisis. In the early stages of the crisis, troubled institutions facing runs were …
By Vern McKinley
March 18, 2014
Policy Analysis

No. 746
State Education Trends
Long‐term trends in academic performance and spending are valuable tools for evaluating past education policies and informing current ones. But such data have been scarce at the state level, where the most important education policy decisions are made. State …
By Andrew J. Coulson
January 27, 2014
Policy Analysis

No. 745
Obamacare: What We Know Now
By Michael D. Tanner
December 3, 2013
Policy Analysis

No. 744
How States Talk Back to Washington and Strengthen American Federalism
Effective federalism requires that state officials be able to secure relief from national directives that impose undue burdens on state governments or improper constraints on state policy discretion. Many analysts focus on clearly legitimate and occasionally effective tactics such as …
By John Dinan
October 22, 2013
Policy Analysis

No. 739
Antitrust Enforcement in the Obama Administration’s First Term: A Regulatory Approach
… even went so far as to suggest that the Great Recession was, at least in part, caused by federal antitrust policy failures during the previous eight years. This paper sets out to investigate how and in what ways antitrust enforcement …
By William F. Shughart II and Diana W. Thomas
October 16, 2013
Policy Analysis

No. 738
SNAP Failure: The Food Stamp Program Needs Reform
… hunger in America. The evidence suggests that much of the increase was due not to the economy but to deliberate policy choices by both federal and state governments, which loosened eligibility standards and actively sought new participants. At the same …
By Michael D. Tanner
October 8, 2013
Policy Analysis

No. 737
Why Growth Is Getting Harder
By Brink Lindsey
June 19, 2013
Policy Analysis

No. 727
‘Paint Is Cheaper Than Rails’: Why Congress Should Abolish New Starts
By Randal O’Toole
June 18, 2013
Policy Analysis

No. 726
Improving Incentives for Federal Land Managers: The Case for Recreation Fees
By Randal O’Toole
April 23, 2013
Policy Analysis

No. 724
Move to Defend: The Case against the Constitutional Amendments Seeking to Overturn Citizens United
By John Samples

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SSDI Reform: Promoting Gainful Employment while Preserving Economic Security

War on Poverty Turns 50: Are We Winning Yet?

The Evidence on Universal Preschool

Rapid Bus: A Low-Cost, High-Capacity Transit System for Major Urban Areas

Libertarianism and Federalism

Run, Run, Run: Was Financial Crisis Panic over Institution Runs Justified?

State Education Trends

Obamacare: What We Know Now

How States Talk Back to Washington and Strengthen American Federalism

Antitrust Enforcement in the Obama Administration’s First Term: A Regulatory Approach

SNAP Failure: The Food Stamp Program Needs Reform

Why Growth Is Getting Harder

‘Paint Is Cheaper Than Rails’: Why Congress Should Abolish New Starts

Improving Incentives for Federal Land Managers: The Case for Recreation Fees

Move to Defend: The Case against the Constitutional Amendments Seeking to Overturn Citizens United