Introduction / by Rosolino A. Candela, Rosemarie Fike, and Roberta Herzberg -- Rise of a centropoly : good intentions, distorted incentives, and the cloaked costs of top-down reform in US public education / by Martha Bradley-Dorsey -- Group identity and unintended consequences of school...

In the late 1940s, the United States experienced a “lobotomy boom” where the use of the lobotomy expanded exponentially. We engage in a comparative institutional analysis, following the framework developed by Tullock (2005), to explain why the lobotomy gained popularity and widespread use...

This paper uses the censuses of 1842 of Canada East (modern day Quebec) and Canada West (modern day Ontario) to help explain the historical differences in living standards between Canada and the United States. The argument made in this paper is that Canada East was substantially poorer than the...