There is an ongoing debate about the effect of changes in labor regulations such as Right-to-Work (RTW) laws on rising income inequality in the U.S. In this paper, we use a relatively new methodology, the Synthetic Control Method – which we argue is more suitable for analyzing this data – to...

There is an ongoing debate about whether changes in labor regulations such as the Right to Work (RTW) laws are contributing to the rising trend of income inequality in the U.S. We adopt the Synthetic Control Method (SCM) for comparative case study to examine the impact of a state's adoption of...

In 2012, anger erupted on the streets of Delhi following the violent rape and murder of a young woman. The scale of the protests, the extent of the media coverage, and the intensity of the public's opprobrium of the police and the administration of Delhi, was unprecedented. This paper argues...