Short Tails

Political spending has been steadily rising each election cycle and it's likely this trend will continue with the upcoming presidential elections; so each year it becomes more and more important to understand exactly how this money enters our democratic...

College tuition has been increasing at an extraordinary rate since the early 1980s - in fact the percent change in cost over the last few decades (about 1100%) has beat out even medical care in cost increase over time!
Similar to the discussion about increases in medical costs, there is a lot of debate and theorizing about what is driving college costs. Much of it unfortunately seems to fall along partisan lines with some, for political reasons, trying to blame the...

There has been a lot of interest in the last few years in looking at the correlations between country-wide measures like gross domestic product (GDP; a proxy for economic performance) and child mortality (a proxy for overall health).1 These types of...

US foreign aid is a hot topic, especially during presidential election cycles like the one we are entering now.1
Typically the conversations and debates about foreign aid focus on how much aid a particular country has received in the previous year or is going to receive in the coming year - with surprisingly little analysis done on the long term trends of where...