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Is the Food and Drug Administration Safe and Effective?
Tomas J. Philipson and Eric Sun

Drug development is time consuming and expensive. Pharmaceutical companies often spend over $100 billion during the development process and it can take more than a decade for drugs to reach the market. In the United States, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) oversees the drug approval process and therefore must balance the speed of drug approval against consumer safety. Read more >>


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Head Start: How Does It Impact Low-Income Children?
Jens Ludwig and Deborah A. Phillips
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How Does Childhood Poverty Impact Adult Body Mass Index?
Ariel Kalil, Kathleen M. Ziol-Guest, PhD’05, and Greg J. Duncan
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Why Do Fewer Women Work in New York than Minneapolis?
Dan Black, Natalia Kolesnikova, and Lowell J. Taylor
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Can State Spending Increase Economic Opportunity?
Susan Mayer and Leonard Lopoo
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The Long View: Women and Welfare after Prison
Robert LaLonde and Kristin Butcher
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Can the World Ever Truly Abandon Nuclear Weapons?
Charles L. Glaser
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