Africa’s startup ecosystem is concentrated in a few hubs and led by highly educated founders. Startups demand equity, but that capital is supplied mainly by foreign investors and flows disproportionately to founders with foreign education or work experience, with important...

Restrictions on spending SNAP benefits on sugary drinks reduced the average SNAP household’s retail purchases of excluded drinks by 12.4% over the first half of 2026. In states that excluded only some sugary drinks, SNAP households partially substituted to non-excluded...

Payroll records covering roughly one in seven US workers show that during the recent inflationary period, most firms kept annual raises around 3%, causing real wages to fall behind rising prices and, for many workers, never fully recover.

A new assessment for preschool-aged children generates two distinct measures of interest-type and deprivation-type curiosity, both internally consistent. Children’s vocabulary is associated with both measures, most strongly with deprivation-type curiosity, and the relationship is robust to a rich set of...