Using administrative records for third through eighth graders in North Carolina public schools, this paper finds evidence that the offering of single-sex mathematics courses is associated with lower performance on end-of-grade math exams, and finds no evidence that the offering of single-sex reading scores increases performance on reading exams.

The right's rhetoric is all about individual liberty, but love of fellow humans is essential to a functioning society -- or policy.

In this article, Strain and Viard outline six realities that will likely shape the policy response to the long-run fiscal imbalance: defense spending, entitlements, revenue, consumption taxation, middle-income earners, and bipartisan agreement. 

At this event, three expert panelists will examine this relationship from the perspectives of influential philosophers such as Aristotle, Alexis de Tocqueville, and representatives of the Scottish Enlightenment.

"Looking at the big picture, the labor market remains badly damaged by the Great Recession, and represents the most important public policy challenge facing the country today. The employed share of the working-age population has been essentially flat since the recovery officially began several years ago – it is not...

The most pressing problem facing the United States today is not the federal budget deficit, the national debt, or excessive federal spending. It is the labor market.

The instability of labor earnings in the United States contributes to earnings inequality and may diminish household welfare. Despite the importance of earnings instability little is known about its correlates or causes. This paper seeks to better understand earnings instability by studying whether volatile firms pay volatile earnings.

The president and Senate Democrats have consistently refused to confront the entitlement growth. House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan displayed political courage by taking on runaway entitlement spending in the budget plan that he introduced on Tuesday. Mr. Ryan proved again that he is one of the few genuine leaders in the entitlement reform arena. But his plan is far from perfect.

Raising the wage will make it more expensive to hire younger and low-skill workers. There are better ways to help the poor.