Despite the worldwide prestige of America's doctoral programs in the humanities, all is not well in this area of higher education and hasn't been for some time. The content of graduate programs has undergone major changes, while high rates of student attrition, long times to degree, and financial burdens prevail. In response, the Andrew W…

What are fossil fuel communities’ preferences over the design of just transition assistance accompanying climate policy? This study conducted survey…

Theories of political control of the bureaucracy place conflict between agencies and political principals, or between political principals themselves, at the center of bureaucratic politics. Important scholarship develops measures of agency ideology to characterize this conflict. However, much of what federal agencies do is not ideological…

We use a rich new body of data on the experiences of unemployed job seekers to determine the sources of wage dispersion and to create a search model consistent with the acceptance decisions the job seekers made. We identify the distributions of four key variables: offered wages, offered nonwage job values, job seekers’ nonwork alternatives, and…

While existing research has documented persistent barriers facing African-American job seekers, far less research has questioned how job seekers respond to this reality. Do minorities self-select into particular segments of the labor market to avoid discrimination? Such questions have remained unanswered due to the lack of data available on the…

This paper examines the various factors and trends impacting ticket pricing in the concert industry through a survey of literature published on the primary and secondary markets. It explores the primary market's motivation to price concert tickets below the profit maximizing level and the role of the secondary ticket market in capitalizing on…

♣ The research was funded by the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions at Vanderbilt University and fielded by the Princeton Survey Research Center in partnership with the Volcker Alliance and Charles Cameron at Princeton University. We are grateful to Larry Bartels, Dan Blair, Catherine Buffington, Josh Clinton, John Cuaderes, John…