In 1958, Eastman Kodak advertised openings for chemical engineers, accountants, and lawyers, but only for men, while women were asked to apply for jobs as secretaries or stenographers. The 1964 Civil ...

Prior to the 1964 Civil Rights Act, it was both legal and common for employers to express explicit gender preferences in their help wanted ads. These ads offer a window into employers’ potentially ...

Do online prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket provide a service beyond the entertainment of gambling? Prediction markets are regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the same ...

Deportations have long been a part of immigration enforcement and their number has fluctuated significantly in the last few decades. Former President Trump has promised to take this further and ...

College sports is undergoing an era of rapid and profound transformation with a number of major changes taking place concurrently. The settlement of an antitrust suit that opened the door to allowing ...

There has been growing concern about the affordability of homeownership in the United States, particularly for first-time homebuyers. The rapid rise in house prices during the pandemic has been ...

Up until the Great Recession, the number of babies born per woman in the United States had been quite stable for the previous three decades. The birth rate fluctuated within a relatively narrow range, ...

From the start of the pandemic consumers and retailers have faced shortages in a wide range of goods, from toilet paper to electronics. Economists and policy-makers have highlighted the role that ...

For most of the past 20 years stock prices and bond prices tended to move in opposite directions. This made buying 10-year Treasury bonds a good hedge for investors seeking to protect their portfolio ...

Since its implementation in 2014, the expansion of Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act has been optional for states — with the federal government footing the bulk of expansion costs. As of ...

Brexit, the United Kingdom’s decision to withdraw from the European Union, is a rare contemporary example of a major developed economy raising trade barriers and more generally pulling back from ...

Immigration has historically been an important driver of U.S. population growth, particularly in recent decades as immigration numbers surged and fertility rates of native-born Americans declined. As ...