October 17, 2019, Video, "The Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) held a major conference on "Combating Inequality:…
Female Labor in Jordan: A Systematic Approach to the Exclusion Puzzle. Ricardo Hausmann, Tim O'Brien, Miguel Santos, October 2019, Paper, "…
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Would a “Wealth Tax” Help Combat Inequality? A Debate with Saez, Summers, and Mankiw. Lawrence Summers, N. Gregory Mankiw, October 16, 2019…
Rule of Law and Female Entrepreneurship. Edward Glaeser, October 2019, Paper, "Commerce requires trust, but trust is difficult when one…
The Economic Effects of Private Equity Buyouts. Josh Lerner, October 14, 2019, Paper, "We examine thousands of U.S. private equity (PE)…
We estimate the causal effects of parental incarceration on children’s short- and long-run outcomes using administrative data from Sweden.…
How to Support Developing Countries in Energy Transition. Kenneth Rogoff, October 11, 2019, Opinion, "Despite the severity of the climate-…
We study the drivers of financial distress using a large-scale field experiment that offered randomly selected borrowers a combination of (…
This paper tests for bias in consumer lending using administrative data from a high-cost lender in the United Kingdom. We motivate our…
We no longer share a common lived experience. Lawrence Summers, October 9, 2019, Opinion, "The economic geography of the United States is…