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Tax policy affects individual behavior, employment, and investment decisions. Studying the trade-offs between efficiency and equity yield solutions for policymakers and the public alike.

The rising challenge posed by China’s active and expansionary foreign policy requires careful study and rebuttal. Its threat to long-standing norms of the liberal order are leading to pushback across the globe.

The Hoover Institution has a long history of scholarship in economic policy. We have two Nobel Prize winners as current fellows and three others, Gary Becker, Milton Friedman, and Douglass North, who served as fellows until their passing.

Hoover fellows have been and remain at the forefront of education reform research, including school choice and accountability.

Volatile and rising energy prices and increasing global concern about climate change pose threats to national security and adverse effects of energy usage on global climate.  Hoover scholars gather comprehensive information on current scientific and technological developments, survey the contingent policy actions, and offer a range of prescriptive policies to address our varied energy challenges.

Housing prices across the country reflect arbitrary supply-side restrictions on new units, including environmental and other zoning rules. Well-intentioned affordable housing carve outs stymie overall supply.

Hoover health policy scholars conduct research that aims to devise policies that enable more Americans to get better value for their health care dollar and foster appropriate innovations that will extend and improve life.

Originally founded over a century ago as a repository for historical documents and ephemera, the Hoover Institution is steeped in history. Today its eminent historians seek to apply the lessons of history to contemporary public policy challenges.

Federal immigration policy dictates the flow of both legal and illegal immigrants to the United States. Promoting the former while limiting the latter requires a renewed perspective of the value that immigrants have always brung to the United States.

International organizations, from the World Health Organization to the United Nations, coordinate disaster relief efforts, climate change policies, and trade disputes. The United States must keep a seat at the table.

Hoover fellows analyze how court decisions and legal interpretations shape government decision making and address how the nation’s constitutional principles should guide the formulation of public policy.

Research into the Federal Reserve and its deliberations as it attempts to manage inflation and the velocity of money. Analysis of international central banks and the effects of their policy on the global economy.

The Hoover fellowship regularly analyzes the political environment shaping government leaders’ decision making, on issues ranging from the economy and national security to public health, education, and the environment. The Institution also conducts two bi-annual polls that measure voters’ attitudes toward social, economic, and political institutions, reactions to specific government policies, and beliefs about the direction of America.

New technologies—from Internet advances to artificial intelligence to synthetic biology and many more—are transforming the global economy and are offering unmatched opportunities to alleviate poverty, raise economic growth, treat disease, and improve lives all over the world. But they also fuel new geopolitical competition and pose unprecedented governance challenges to domestic political institutions. Hoover scholars conduct original research, bring together private sector and public sector leaders, and develop policy recommendations.

The Hoover Institution hosts some of the world’s most eminent national security thinkers and practitioners, including a former Secretary of Defense and two National Security Advisors, committed to developing and articulating new strategies to cope with an increasingly chaotic world.

State and local governments dictate more of American life than is commonly assumed. Public safety, education, and housing are all governed by state and local decision makers.

In a statement made to the Stanford Board of Trustees in 1959, the Institution’s founder underscored that America’s economic and social system is based on private enterprise, from which springs initiative and ingenuity. Our fellowship remains committed to the principle that free trade is the key engine of national income growth, benefits consumers with less costly goods and services, and, more equitably than any other system, expands wealth and prosperity across societies.

Promoting the core values of the United States requires clear communication to our allies and adversaries, along with the will to support the implementation of those values.