America’s regional disparities are large and regional convergence has declined if not disappeared. This wildly uneven economic landscape…
What makes gig economy workers anxious? Lawrence Katz, March 8, 2018, Audio, "What do freelance writers, IT consultants and Mary Kay…
Saving the heartland: Place-based policies in 21st Century America. Edward Glaeser, Lawrence Summers, March 8, 2018, Paper, "America’s…
We use literacy data available in the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for 129 survey rounds, across 54 countries, to estimate the…
March 2018. GrowthPolicy’s Devjani Roy interviewed George Serafeim, Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at…
Wesley Mitchell’s Business Cycles After 100 Years. Walter A. Friedman, March 6, 2018, Paper, "This paper revisits economist Wesley…
This paper examines the choice between subsidizing investment or output to promote socially desirable production. We exploit a natural…
March 5, 2018, Video: "The likelihood of bitcoin prices falling to $100 is greater than that of the digital currency trading at $100,000 a…
On the Direct and Indirect Real Effects of Credit Supply Shocks. Laura Alfaro, March 5, 2018, Paper, "We consider the real effects of bank…
We will see a version of this tariff as Trump 'has to do it for his base'. Kenneth Rogoff, March 5, 2018, Video, "The proposed steel and…