June 22, 2020, Paper: "Empirical work on the minimum wage typically estimate effects averaged across high and low wage areas. Low wage…
June 19, 2020, Opinion, "To reduce inequality and racial injustice, a lot of people are interested in making college available to all. The…
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…
New research finds Black and Hispanic students living close to police-involved killings suffer substantial educational and psychological…
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…