Anne Case traces the rise in 'deaths of despair' in the US back to stagnating wages and the contracting out by firms of low-skilled jobs to avoid high health insurance costs
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Dina Pomeranz 14 February 2020
Evidence from Chile shows how the value-added tax (VAT) can facilitate tax enforcement by generating paper trails on transactions between firms.
Antoinette Schoar 11 February 2020
Understanding the origins of the American housing crisis of 2007 has been a challenge for economists and policy makers.
03 February 2020
While policymakers go the extra mile to try to attract investments, they often hold serious misconceptions about the impact of multinationals
31 January 2020
The EU is the UK’s biggest trade partner; in this video Angus Armstrong discusses the impact of Brexit on the UK’s trade patterns.
Antoinette Schoar 28 January 2020
Tech developments have made many things more efficient, convenient and cheaper — but there’s also a downside.
Antoinette Schoar 13 January 2020
"It’s not too far of a stretch to think that there’s a correlation between style and performance.”
Marianne Bertrand 24 December 2019
Marianne Bertrand talks about the importance of making economics accessible to the general population
James Galbraith 20 December 2019
James K. Galbraith argues that payroll data represent a more widely available and consistent measure of inequality than survey-based or tax-based measures.
Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan 12 December 2019
Sebnem Kalemli-Özcan discusses foreign direct investment and how local conditions can limit a country's capacity to take advantage of spillovers from the investment