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Every factual claim on ThePolicyLens draws from published academic research, government data, and authoritative reporting. All citations are listed here by topic and explainer.

Housing3 explainers
Housing →Rent Control
  1. 1.The Effects of Rent Control Expansion on Tenants, Landlords, and Inequality:American Economic Review·2019
  2. 2.Out of Control: What Can We Learn from the End of Massachusetts Rent Control?:Journal of Urban Economics·2007
  3. 3.Rent Controls: IGM Forum Expert Panel:IGM Forum, Chicago Booth·2012
  4. 4.America's Rental Housing 2024:Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies·2024
Housing →Zoning Reform
  1. 1.Housing Constraints and Spatial Misallocation:American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics·2019
  2. 2.The Economic Implications of Housing Supply:Journal of Economic Perspectives·2018
  3. 3.Upzoning Chicago: Impacts on Residential Investment and Racial Demographics:Urban Affairs Review·2020
  4. 4.Parking and the City:Routledge·2018
Housing →Public Housing & Housing Vouchers
  1. 1.Moved to Opportunity: The Long-Run Effects of Public Housing Demolition on Children:American Economic Review·2018
  2. 2.The Effects of Exposure to Better Neighborhoods on Children: New Evidence from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment:American Economic Review·2016
  3. 3.Low-Income Housing Policy:NBER Working Paper·2015
  4. 4.Research Shows Section 8 Vouchers Help Families Afford Housing in High-Opportunity Areas:Center on Budget and Policy Priorities·2024
Labor3 explainers
Labor →Non-Compete Clauses
  1. 1.Noncompete Agreements in the US Labor Force:Journal of Law and Economics·2021
  2. 2.Restrictive Covenants in Employment:NBER Working Paper·2022
  3. 3.Regional Innovation and the Noncompete Economy:Journal of Economic Geography·2019
Labor →Minimum Wage
  1. 1.Minimum Wages and Employment: A Case Study of the Fast-Food Industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania:American Economic Review·1994
  2. 2.Minimum Wage Effects Across State Borders: Estimates Using Contiguous Counties:Review of Economics and Statistics·2010
  3. 3.The Effect of Minimum Wages on Low-Wage Jobs:Quarterly Journal of Economics·2019
  4. 4.The Effects on Employment and Family Income of Increasing the Federal Minimum Wage:Congressional Budget Office·2021
Labor →Gig Economy & Worker Classification
  1. 1.The Rise and Nature of Alternative Work Arrangements in the United States, 1995–2015:ILR Review·2019
  2. 2.A Proposal for Modernizing Labor Laws for Twenty-First-Century Work: The "Independent Worker":Hamilton Project, Brookings Institution·2015
  3. 3.Uber and the Labor Market: Uber Drivers' Compensation, Wages, and the Scale of Uber and the Gig Economy:Economic Policy Institute·2018
  4. 4.Contingent Worker Supplement:Bureau of Labor Statistics·2023
Antitrust2 explainers
Antitrust →Antitrust Enforcement
  1. 1.Amazon's Antitrust Paradox:Yale Law Journal·2017
  2. 2.Antitrust in a Time of Populism:International Journal of Industrial Organization·2019
  3. 3.2023 Merger Guidelines:U.S. Department of Justice & Federal Trade Commission·2023
  4. 4.Is Antitrust's Consumer Welfare Principle Imperiled?:Journal of Corporation Law·2019
Antitrust →Platform Monopolies & Big Tech
  1. 1.Platform Competition in Two-Sided Markets:Journal of the European Economic Association·2003
  2. 2.Competition Policy for the Digital Era:European Commission·2019
  3. 3.The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age:Columbia Global Reports·2018
  4. 4.The Rise of Market Power and the Macroeconomic Implications:Quarterly Journal of Economics·2017
Privacy2 explainers
Privacy →Data Privacy Regulation
  1. 1.The Effect of Privacy Regulation on the Data Industry:American Economic Journal: Microeconomics·2022
  2. 2.GDPR and the Lost Generation of Innovative Apps:NBER Working Paper·2020
  3. 3.The Economics of Privacy:Journal of Economic Literature·2016
Privacy →GDPR vs. CCPA: Two Models for Privacy
  1. 1.Regulation (EU) 2016/679: General Data Protection Regulation:European Parliament and Council·2016
  2. 2.California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA):California Legislative Information·2018
  3. 3.The Economic Consequences of Data Privacy Regulation: Empirical Evidence from GDPR:NBER Working Paper·2020
  4. 4.Regulating Privacy Online: An Economic Evaluation of the GDPR:American Economic Journal: Economic Policy·2023
Education2 explainers
Education →Student Debt Cancellation
  1. 1.A Crisis in Student Loans? How Changes in the Characteristics of Borrowers and in the Institutions They Attended Contributed to Rising Loan Defaults:Brookings Papers on Economic Activity·2015
  2. 2.Who Benefits Most from Student Loan Forgiveness?:Journal of Economic Perspectives·2022
  3. 3.Federal Student Loan Programs: Data and Projections:Congressional Budget Office·2024
  4. 4.The Labor Market for Recent College Graduates:Federal Reserve Bank of New York·2024
Education →School Choice & Vouchers
  1. 1.Does School Choice Work? Effects on Student Integration and Achievement:American Economic Journal: Applied Economics·2014
  2. 2.Accountability and Flexibility in Public Schools: Evidence from Boston's Charters and Pilots:Quarterly Journal of Economics·2011
  3. 3.National Charter School Study:Stanford Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO)·2023
  4. 4.The Effects of School Vouchers on College Enrollment: Experimental Evidence from New York City:Brookings Institution·2012