In a new paper published in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Enrico Moretti of UC Berkeley finds that much of the increase in income inequality seen in recent decades is offset by ...

Territorial stigmatization refers to the process by which certain places become marked as undesirable, unsafe or deficient, owing to a combination of social, economic and political factors. These ...

While the U.S. economy outperforms other rich countries, it doesn’t feel that way for many Americans. Forty-two percent of Americans don’t have an emergency savings fund, while 40% can’t afford a ...