June 18, 2020, Paper, "Thank you for the opportunity to testify on the unemployment situation and the critical role that unemployment…
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June 17, 2020, Paper, "We build a publicly available platform that tracks economic activity at a granular level in real time using…
Nearly a thousand officer-involved killings occur each year in the United States. This paper documents the large, racially-disparate…
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…
This study examines the impact of returns to work, for adult labor and child labor, on child work and schooling outcomes. We propose an…
We conducted a randomized controlled trial of an information intervention to evaluate the effects of providing information to families on…
2020, Paper: "We propose a three-step factor-flows simulation-based approach to forecast the duration distribution of unemployment. Step 1…
May 27, 2020, Video, "COVID-19 is amplifying a fundamental democratic mismatch: the vulnerable, often low-income and of-color, workers who…
May 18, 2020, Video, "On May 18th, 2020, Gordon Hanson, Peter Wertheim Professor in Urban Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School presented on…
Small samples negatively affect the quality of the information we use when making group-based estimates. Small samples have higher…