And Richard Sosis, an anthropologist at the University of Connecticut, has already donesomeresearch which suggests that the long-term co-operative benefits of religion outweigh the short-term costs it imposes in the form of praying many times a day, avoiding certain foods, fasting and so on.
The organization hasdonesome quality work on retirement security and published an independent research project I wrote last year on structured products.
Some of the most careful and convincing empirical research on the employment effects of minimum wages has been done by David Neumark and William Wascher.