2026-02-06
David Card, Jesse Rothstein, and Moises Yi had a cool study published last year to try and get a reliable estimate of the wage benefits you get from living in a superstar city. You might think you can tease this out by j…
This year’s remarkably bipartisan burst of federal housing policy legislation is back in action after the earlier breakdown of House-Senate talks: The House has put their package on the calendar this week, and the Senate…
Why is it so hard to build enough electricity supply to meet surging demand? A new draft paper from Joshua Macey and Lynne Kiesling argues that the current regulatory system creates perverse incentives for incumbents to …
Here at AGF we care a lot about ensuring basic scientific research gets funded and conducted well, and this piece in Works in Progress by Aria Schrecker is a nice illustration of why that kind of work can matter in achie…
It’s admin burden week in the AGF Innovation Policy vertical. Let’s start with the good: last week the NIH announced that they will no longer consider “Basic Experimental Studies Involving Humans (BESH)” to be clinical t…
Now for the ugly: a few days ago the Council on Government Relations released a new report on research regulations ; they find that 66% of new or revised requirements since 1991 have been issued in the last 10 years, wit…
AI makes it easier to do good science, but it also makes it easy to churn out junk papers. Late last month, arXiv, under strain from a rapid increase in submissions, changed its policy to block new university-affiliated …