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July 2020, Paper: "The Online Appendix provides additional evidence and sensitivity checks. Section A shows the distribution of schooling by country-birth-decade. Section B…
June 25, 2020, Audio, "In business, market forces drive innovation through competition and accountability. But America’s political system has long prevented any meaningful…
June 23, 2020, Video, "Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers tackles the toughest public policy of our times: opening our economies safely, structuring a just…
June 15, 2020, Audio, "Some Native American tribes have seen high infection rates from COVID-19. And the COVID-19 pandemic has also stalled one of the primary economic engines for…
June 10, 2020, Paper, "Student loans help many individuals obtain higher education that they otherwise could not fund, but concerns have arisen in recent years about the large…
June 8, 2020, Audio"To help address the big questions that shape our world, UBS has sought out a number of Nobel laureates in the Economic Sciences to ask them to share insights…
June 5, 2020, Opinion, "The official unemployment rate rose from 3.5 percent in February to 13.3 percent in May (down from its value in April). Even this very large official…
June 2, 2020, Video, "The COVID-19 pandemic is a global crisis of unprecedented scale, with aftershocks that will be felt in virtually every aspect of life for years or decades to…
What makes cities vulnerable to COVID-19? Concentrated poverty, says econ professor - Edward Glaeser
May 28, 2020, Audio, "Disease has thrived among dense populations since cities began. But COVID-19 is the worst example since 1918, and New York City is America’s primary victim,…
May 24, 2020, Opinion, "Spurred on by President Trump, Republican governors are reopening their states. In other states, protests against the lockdown roll on even as the country…