Federal rules and regulations shape our daily lives in innumerable ways. The Center on Regulation and Markets has relaunched their Regulatory Tracker to help researchers, policymakers, and the public stay up to date on important policy changes made by the executive branch.
A case to be heard before the Supreme Court this week will consider the causal effects of abortion access on the lives of women and their families. Caitlin Knowles Myers and Morgan Welch apply an economic lens to the question and find that access to abortion affects women’s education, earnings, careers, and the subsequent life outcomes for their children.
China effectively leapfrogged the magnetic-stripe card-based payments system still widely used in the West, implementing an alternative digital payments system in under a decade. Aaron Klein explores the history and future of digital payments in China and beyond.
