Research

This policy paper examines conservation projects using crowdsourcing to determine if it is a useful tool for advancing conservation efforts.

In this poll (administered by YouGov), we continue to unpack how Americans view today’s major tech platforms, free speech, and more.

This paper explores a modest but not insignificant opportunity to put a price on carbon that doesn’t raise consumer prices.

In this policy paper, authors Austin Vernon and Eli Dourado explore what life would be like with endless energy.

In this piece, Eli Dourado explores the many ways space investments improve our quality of life and allow us to innovate.

Authors Joaquin Alfredo-Angel Rubalcaba, Jose R. Bucheli, and Camila Morales evaluate the labor supply behavior of US-born Hispanic youth.

In this paper, authors Robert M. Zink and Luke B. Klicka examine—according to modern standards—the validity of subspecies currently listed.

What are targeted cash assistance programs and what are their effects? CGO Visiting Scholar Max Ghenis discusses in this research in focus.

Research commercialization is when a university signs a contract with a private company. Does location matter for these deals?

In this paper, Todd Griffith examines what happened with manufacturing and productivity after Immigration Reform and Control Act took effect.

What happens to immigrant communities when immigration enforcement is strictly enforced? Children may be affected the most.

How can private land be counted in the 30 x 30 efforts proposed by the Biden Administration? Megan Jenkins and Harrison Naftel explain.

In this comment authors examine two promising tools for private conservation that should be included in the US' 30 by 30 efforts.

During the Great Depression, the United States removed approximately 263,000 Mexicans, including US citizens. This paper looks at some of the effects.

This little known ICE program called IMAGE has some serious issues. Daniel Chand of Kent State University explains in this working paper.

Recently, the Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service proposed a rule that would rescind its 2020 definition of habitat under the Endangered Species Act.

In 2009, Elinor Ostrom won the Noble memorial prize in economics sciences for, in the words of the prize committee, “demonstrating how local property can be successfully managed by local commons without any regulation by central authorities or privatization.” This account of Ostrom’s contribution focuses on how her work presented a “third way” of governing […]

This paper describes how a non-profit and a for-profit business helped save one of the last grassland ecosystems in the world.

How much does an immigration visa cost? In this policy paper, Korok Ray answers and estimates how many immigrants the U.S. can take in.

Saving taxpayers and protecting homes, this solution is a win-win for landowners, insurers, and policymakers. To keep this private approach alive, we’ll need protections that fan the flames of innovation.

In this chapter, economist James Prieger examines the risks and relative benefits of vaping compared to smoke tobacco.

Adam C. Smith and Stephan F. Gohmann provide avenues for states to improve beer regulations to encourage the growth of the industry.

Doctors DeAngelis and Burke review the effects of school choice programs that give families wider options to move between schools.

Net neutrality, like other policies, sounds uncontroversial yet refers to a specific and highly contentious policy.

Michael Giberson and Lynne Kiesling compare how Texas’s electricity market provides much more diversity of choice than other states.

In this chapter, Jerry Ellig shows how improvements in technology have made monopolies for electric service obsolete.

Environmental policy scholars challenge the choice between protection through strict regulation or a free-for-all causing degradation.

Regulation is often justified by the existence of market failures in which market systems fail to maximize overall welfare.

Cities and states adopt energy standards into building codes to reduce energy consumption and prevent environmental damages.