How to Fix the Housing Crisis

To address the serious shortage of housing, Vice President Kamala Harris has proposed subsidies for first-time homebuyers and a $40 billion innovation fund. Writing in the?New York Times,?Edward L. Glaeser, one of the world’s leading urban economists, explains?why these proposals are misguided and proposes more effective alternatives.

Harris’s economic proposals also include a transformation of the child tax credit into an allowance of up to $6,000 with no work requirements. Deputy Director of AEI’s Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility?Kevin Corinth shows?why this change will only hurt working families.

While both campaigns have talked tough on China, neither have advanced serious proposals to address our dangerous economic dependence. In a new AEI report,?Derek Scissors provides?a comprehensive decoupling policy handbook to limit our vulnerabilities to China on issues such as supply chains, investment, and technology theft.

Donald Trump and Harris are running out of time to make their case to the American people, as Election Day is less than nine weeks away, and early voting starts in less than two weeks in Pennsylvania.?Chris Stirewalt assesses?the state of the race and both candidates’ path to victory in his latest column.

What are the sources of sex differences in human behavior??In a new TED Talk, Carole Hooven, evolutionary biologist, AEI scholar, and author of?T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone That Dominates and Divides Us, explores how testosterone and culture interact to define male and female behavior.

The Marriage Paradox: Understanding and Remedying the Paradoxical Place of Marriage in America

The US marriage rate has fallen significantly. Only about 50 percent of American adults are currently married, down from 72 percent in 1960. But while marriage rates have declined, evidence of marriage’s social and economic benefits has only mounted in recent years. In a new paper for the?Journal of Policy Analysis and Management,?W. Bradford Wilcox and Alan J. Hawkins explore?this “marriage paradox” by reviewing the latest social science research. Wilcox and Hawkins demonstrate how marriage benefits children and adults and identify policies, including eliminating marriage penalties and decreasing the cost of single-family housing, that could reinforce cultural and economic supports for the institution.

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