August 2021, Paper: "Developing AI technology requires data. In many domains, government data far exceeds in magnitude and scope data…
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Conflict, drought and locusts are leading concerns for African food security but the relative importance and spatiotemporal scale of crises…
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2021, Paper: "In this paper, we quantify the magnitude of R&D spillovers created by grants to small firms from the US Department of…
July 27, 2021, Video: "Gita Gopinath, IMF chief economist, joins 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss the IMF's updated world economic outlook…
Grassroots organizing and collective action have always been fundamental to American democracy but have been burgeoning since the 2016…
This chapter discusses the historically entrenched practice of minority scapegoating during epidemics, exemplified by the return of anti-…
We provide a new method to analyze discrete choice models with state dependence and individual-by-product fixed effects, and use it to…
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July 29, 2021, Paper: "Thank you for the opportunity to testify on the important topic of economic disparities. I am the Aetna Professor of…
The American economy had pervasive disparities before the pandemic. The pandemic exacerbated many of those disparities in market outcomes…