Research Brief

Mapping Mineral Industrial Policies: Restrictions, Enablers, Incentives, and Partnerships in Indonesia and Australia

An analysis of mineral industrial policies in two key countries, and a view into their strategies diverge.

Part of the series Minerals-Based Industrial Policies in a Fragmenting World: Lessons from Indonesia and Australia

Unpacking Mineral Markets: Visual Summary

An overview of key figures.

Part of the series Unpacking Mineral Markets

Unpacking Mineral Markets Memo: Situating the Opportunities

On the diversity of opportunities and challenges for mineral-rich countries as they grapple with the material demands of decarbonization.

Part of the series Unpacking Mineral Markets

Minerals-Based Industrial Policies in a Fragmenting World: Lessons from Indonesia and Australia

The first paper in a series on how mineral-producing countries are pursuing industrial policy.

Part of the series Minerals-Based Industrial Policies in a Fragmenting World: Lessons from Indonesia and Australia

The (In)accessibility of OBBB’s New Tax Cuts

"The new deductions are a minor and ineffective token of targeted support to the middle and working class in an...

Benchmarking Opportunity in Transition-Critical Mineral Markets

"The most aggressive growth and price scenarios, which miners tend to favor in their feasibility studies, often embed optimistic assumptions...

Tax Provisions of the House-passed ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’: Impact on Low-Income Families with Children

"The limited reach of OBBB’s CTC expansion appears poorly understood."

Part of the series Low-Income Families with Children and The Reconciliation Debate

EITC Certificates: How a Certification Mandate Would Function like a Universal Audit 

"If all EITC recipients claiming children must comply with audit procedures to receive a certificate, they will effectively be audited...

Part of the series Low-Income Families with Children and The Reconciliation Debate

Without Improvements to Refundability, any Child Tax Credit Expansion Cannot Benefit Low-Income Working Families

"Refundability is the key mechanism for a CTC expansion to benefit low-income working families."

Part of the series Low-Income Families with Children and The Reconciliation Debate

Correcting the Record on Child Tax Credit Compliance Concerns

"There is strong evidence that most incorrect CTC payments are benign errors—the bulk of incorrect claims come from close...

Guaranteed Income In The Wild: Summarizing Evidence From Pilot Studies and Implications for Policy

How to make sense of competing claims about guaranteed income?

Transition-Critical Minerals: Wealth Endowments and Value Capture — Interactive Map

A high-level distribution of current and future mining production and potential royalty revenue globally through 2030.

Part of the series Mineral Wealth and Electrification

Solar Memo

"Solar is by far the fastest growing power generation technology in the US." On solar module assembly in the US.

Part of the series Financing the Energy Transition

Labor Market Policy and the Energy Transition: A Problem Statement

"Can skilled labor supply expand at the necessary pace to green our energy system, without wasting an opportunity to negotiate...

Part of the series Labor Market Policy and the Energy Transition

Nuclear Memo

"JFI modeling suggests that, even with existing reactor designs, greenfield nuclear power plants can be a competitive source of clean,...

Part of the series Financing the Energy Transition

Mexico’s Petroleum Hedging Program as Counter-Cyclical Insurance

A new report and modeling exercise point to the possible relevance of this successful petroleum hedging strategy to other exporting...

Municipal Bank of LA: Housing Solutions and Portfolio Options

An analysis of how a public bank in Los Angeles could support the city’s broader infrastructure, housing, and sustainability...

Part of the series Municipal Public Banking

What a Public Bank Can Do for L.A. and Its People

A summary analysis of lending programs that create more affordable housing, empower worker ownership of small business, and accelerate the...

Part of the series Municipal Public Banking

Research Brief: Migration and Housing Inflation, by Paul Williams

How rents impacted pandemic migrations, and migrations shape rent growth

Social Wealth Seminar: Paul Williams and Zachary Marks

"Building a Future for Public Developers."

Part of the series Social Wealth Seminar

Opportunity in Crisis: New Polling on Public Opinion Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic

Results from a nationally representative survey investigating how the public health and economic impacts of COVID-19 influenced Americans’ attitudes towards...

Part of the series Messaging Guaranteed Income

They Worked: Claudia Sahm on the effects of $1,400 relief payments on families and the economy

New survey data demonstrating how families made use of the third round of cash relief.

Part of the series From Idea to Reality: Getting to Guaranteed Income

Social Wealth Seminar: Jason Windawi

“What Makes Guaranteed Income Durable?"

Part of the series Social Wealth Seminar

How to frame guaranteed income policy: a review of literature

Plentiful research and pilots have demonstrated the positive impacts of guaranteed income, but policy proposals require careful attention to framing...

Part of the series Messaging Guaranteed Income