A report says new approaches and increased spending are needed to ensure that government statistics remain dependable and free of political influence. By Ben Casselman Federal Reserve officials use ...

Quantitative researchers often discuss research ethics as if specific ethical problems can be reduced to abstract normative logics (e.g., virtue ethics, utilitarianism, deontology). Such approaches ...

Every month, the federal government serves up a steady diet of economic reports on everything from the price of groceries to the unemployment rate. These reports are closely followed: They can move ...