Amid the recent flurry of legal and policy efforts to expand publicly funded private school choice programs, Joshua Cowen explains how to reconcile findings that voucher programs lead students to perform worse academically with research suggesting they might also lead students to persist longer in school.
China’s foreign policy over the past decade has grown more nakedly ambitious and tolerant of friction in pursuit of national objectives. As Xi Jinping nears completion of his second term as general secretary, Ryan Hass explains the leader’s impact on the country’s foreign policy and what direction it may take in the coming years.
The U.S. and other advanced economies have recently experienced some of the highest rates of consumer price inflation in decades. Anton Korinek and Joseph E. Stiglitz argue that the current macroeconomic situation calls for an updated policy response that differs from the consensus that had shaped stabilization policy in the past.
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