This book explores the purposes of federal student loans, how well traditional arrangements work, and how innovations might offer guidance for rethinking the design of financial aid.

Students and families can finance higher education in three ways: grants, government-backed loans, or private loans. Contemporary research and debate typically focus on grants and federally supported loans. Meanwhile, despite its explosive growth, the private loan market remains minimally researched and poorly understood. This made sense a decade ago, when...

Kenneth P. Green responds to questions Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) asked him about climate change during recent testimony before the Senate Committee on Finance.

This report examines the taxation of corporate gains on depreciable business property, an important topic that has received little attention in the economic literature.

U.S. foreign aid needs a new business model that fits the realities of today's global economic picture.

How severe is the crisis in the pharmaceutical industry?

Which climate policy approach will succeed the Kyoto Protocol: cap-and-trade or a carbon tax?

With the fates of the Food and Drug Administration and the pharmaceutical industry more intertwined than ever, our health depends on regulatory innovation as much as on scientific progress.