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Policy Proposals
March 27, 2017
Protecting urban places and populations from rising climate risk
This paper proposes three complementary policies for enhancing urban resilience to new climate risk. The first focuses on improving key urban infrastructure. T…
Posts
March 24, 2017
The economic and policy context for greenhouse gas emissions
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions—and primarily CO2 emissions—have meaningfully contributed to the warming the globe has experienced so far, and are expected to c…
Economic Facts
March 2, 2017
In order that they might rest their arguments on facts: The vital role of government-collected data
Objective, impartial data collection by federal statistical agencies is vital to informing decisions made by businesses, policy makers, and families. These mea…
Posts
March 1, 2017
Defending the data
Federal statistical agencies provide indispensable data that strengthens governance, research, and innovation. In this blog, The Hamilton Project explores one …
Posts
February 9, 2017
No free lunch: The pros and cons of public-private partnerships for infrastructure financing
The need to improve our nation’s infrastructure is an issue on which many policy makers, at all levels of government and across the political aisle, can agree.…
Papers
February 7, 2017
If you build it: A guide to the economics of infrastructure investment
This paper seeks to provide an economic framework for evaluating infrastructure investments and their methods of funding and finance. Why should we invest in i…
Papers
December 12, 2016
Money lightens the load
In this economic analysis, THP analyzes the relationship between age, income, and measures of health status, as well as how these relationships have changed be…
Posts
December 8, 2016
Aligning federal coal leasing and US climate policy
In a new paper from The Hamilton Project and the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago, Professors Kenneth T. Gillingham (of Yale) and James H. …