During a crisis, does a community's ethnic composition influence policy efficiency? How do the effects of ethnic divisions differ from those of ethnic diversity? Despite the large body of work which considers ethnic composition, little attention has been given to how it matters for...

Since the early 1980s, the U.S. economy has experienced a growing wage differential: high-skilled workers have claimed an increasing share of available income, while low-skilled workers have seen an absolute decline in real wages. How and why this disparity has arisen is a matter of ongoing...