Do voucher programs force public schools into a zero-sum game by redirecting public funds and promising students to private schools? Or do school-choice options spur healthy competition by pressuring public schools to improve?

Alan D. Viard and contributors offer an invaluable guide for policymakers facing important decisions about a variety of taxes.

This volume is an invaluable guide for policymakers facing important decisions about environmental taxation, marginal tax rates, dividend taxation, and the taxation of business investment.

A recent paper by Mark Duggan and Melissa Kearney found that participation in the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program, which offers a monthly stipend to individuals who prove that they cannot work, leads to a significant and persistent reduction in the probability that a child lives in poverty. The disability...

What have economists learned from the Bush tax cuts and other tax policies that can inform tax policy debates in the next decade?

What have economists learned from the Bush tax cuts and other tax policies that can inform tax policy debates in the next decade?

The U.S. corporate governance system has recently been heavily criticized, largely as a result of failures at Enron, WorldCom, Tyco and some other prominent companies.

When the new president and Congress take office in 2009, they will face several critical tax policy decisions: Should the income tax rate cuts and the reductions in dividend and capital gains taxes adopted in 2001 and 2003 be made permanent? Should the corporate income tax and the taxation of...