HomeAn ever-growing library of government failures. Generic selectors Exact matches only Exact matches only Search in title Search in title Search in content Search in content Search in excerpt Search in posts Search in posts Search in pages Search in pages Hidden All Causal Design Correlation Descriptive Statistic “Ban-the-box” Harms Black EmploymentCausal Design “Ban-the-Box” Harms Hispanic EmploymentCausal Design FDI Less Likely Where Corporate Taxes are HighCorrelation Less Happiness in Least Free CountriesCorrelation Investment Lowest Where Corporate Taxes HighestCorrelation Largest Aid Recipients Experienced Lowest Subsequent Growth RatesCorrelation Black Markets Common Where Corporate Taxes HighestCorrelation USPS Posts Massive Annual LossesDescriptive Statistic Citizens Know Least Where Media is UnfreeCorrelation Less Tolerance in Economically Unfree CountriesCorrelation Policy Uncertainty Reduces EmploymentCausal Design Poverty Level Unchanged Despite Increased Welfare SpendingDescriptive Statistic Land-use Restrictions & Expensive Housing Go Hand-in-handCorrelation Least Free Countries Have Negative Growth RatesCorrelation Alcohol Consumption Barely Fell During ProhibitionDescriptive Statistic Genocides Deadlier than WarsDescriptive Statistic Printing Money Tends to Generate Price InflationCorrelation Citizens Less Willing to Demonstrate Where Media is UnfreeCorrelation Aid Associated with Slowing African Growth RatesCorrelation Decentralized Productivity Buries Central PlanningDescriptive Statistic OSHA didn’t speed decline in workplace deathsDescriptive Statistic US Prisons Don’t RehabilitateDescriptive Statistic Money Supply Growth Accompanied by Hyperinflation in ZimbabweCorrelation Government Debt has Exceeded World GDP for DecadesDescriptive Statistic Red-tape Correlated with CorruptionCorrelation Gender Pay Gap Largest in Economically Un-free CountriesCorrelation Largest Aid Recipients Experienced Lowest Subsequent Growth RatesCorrelation Literacy Rates Lower in Less Free CountriesCorrelation Net Migration From Least Free MetrosCorrelation Unemployment Highest in Least-free Metro AreasCorrelation Government Spending Didn’t Boost Test ScoresCorrelation ADA Hurt Disabled WorkersCausal Design During Prohibition, Americans Drank Harder LiquorsDescriptive Statistic Teen Employment Lowest Where Minimum Wage HighestCorrelation Corruption Higher where Disaster Relief HigherCorrelation Regulation and Trust in Internet are UncorrelatedCorrelation Curfews Cause CrimeCausal Design Voter Turnout Lower Where Media is UnfreeCorrelation FEMA Aid Precedes Corruption SpikeCorrelation GDP Growth Rate Lower Where Gov Receipts HigherCorrelation Homicides Spiked During ProhibitionDescriptive Statistic Well-being Improved After Government CollapseDescriptive Statistic Unfree Countries Have Dirtier AirCorrelation Poverty Declined Until “War on Poverty”Descriptive Statistic Poorer counties award more to plaintiffsCorrelation Startups Rarest Where Corporate Taxes HighestCorrelation Deforestation More Common in Least Free CountriesCorrelation Income Inequality Greatest in Least Free CountriesCorrelation Government Surveillance Exerts a Chilling EffectCorrelation
