Technological Progress and Health Convergence: The Case of Penicillin in Postwar Italy
Throughout history, technological progress has transformed population health, but the distributional effects of these gains are unclear.
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Olive Garden's Expansion Of Paid Sick Leave During COVID-19 Reduced The Share Of Employees Working While Sick
The COVID-19 pandemic has focused public and policy attention on the acute lack of paid sick leave for service-sector workers in the United States.
Violent conflict exacerbated drought-related food insecurity between 2009 and 2019 in sub-Saharan Africa
Conflict, drought and locusts are leading concerns for African food security but the relative importance and spatiotemporal scale of crises resulting from each hazard is poorly characterized.
Prisms of the People: Power & Organizing in Twenty-First-Century America
Grassroots organizing and collective action have always been fundamental to American democracy but have been burgeoning since the 2016 election, as people struggle to make their voices heard in this m
Hatred against Roma in times of pandemic
This chapter discusses the historically entrenched practice of minority scapegoating during epidemics, exemplified by the return of anti-Roma racism as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Prepared Testimony on “Economic Disparities and the Economic Challenges Facing American Familiesâ€
The American economy had pervasive disparities before the pandemic.
Unobserved Heterogeneity, State Dependence, and Health Plan Choices
We provide a new method to analyze discrete choice models with state dependence and individual-by-product fixed effects, and use it to analyze consumer choices in a policy-relevant environment (a subs
The Great Unequalizer: Initial Health Effects of COVID-19 in the United States
We measure inequities from the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality and hospitalizations in the United States during the early months of the outbreak.
Artificial Intelligence and the Past, Present, and Future of Democracy
Located at the intersection of political philosophy, philosophy of technology and political history, this essay reflects on medium and long-term prospects and challenges for democracy that arise from
Africa’s Manufacturing Puzzle: Evidence from Tanzanian and Ethiopian Firms
Recent growth accelerations in Africa are characterized by increasing productivity in agriculture, a declining share of the labor force employed in agriculture and declining productivity in modern se
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