New child tax credit should be a call to action for banks
The bank robber Willie Sutton wasn’t in the business of giving advice to bankers, but that doesn’t mean bankers can’t learn from him.
Research
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.
The Fall and Rise of Immigrant Employment During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Employment rates fell dramatically between March and April 2020 as the initial shock of the Covid-19 pandemic reverberated through the U.S. labor market.
Covariance Regression Models for Studying Treatment Effect Heterogeneity Across One or More Outcomes: Understanding How Treatments Shape Inequality
Causal analyses typically focus on average treatment effects. Yet for substantive research on topics like inequality, interest extends to treatments’ distributional consequences.
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
Surveilling Surveillance: Estimating the Prevalence of Surveillance Cameras with Street View Data
The use of video surveillance in public spaces--both by government agencies and by private citizens--has attracted considerable attention in recent years, particularly in light of rapid advances in fa
Beyond Causality: Additional Benefits of Randomized Controlled Trials for Improving Health Care Delivery
Policy Points Policymakers at federal and state agencies, health systems, payers, and providers need rigorous evidence for strategies to improve health care delivery and population health.
Doctors' and Nurses' Social Media Ads Reduced Holiday Travel and COVID-19 Infections: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial
During the COVID-19 epidemic, many health professionals started using mass communication on social media to relay critical information and persuade individuals to adopt preventative health behaviors.
Early Career Workers in the Service Sector
• The early career period is an important time for launching one’s career trajectory. The service sector is a common setting for early career workers.
Paid Family & Medical Leave In the U.S. Service Sector
Each year, millions of U.S. workers experience the need for time away from work after welcoming a new child to the family or because of a health or a caregiving need. However, the U.S.
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