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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