Nick Tsivanidis develops a quantitative model to estimate the effects of improving public transit infrastructure on city structure and welfare.
Research brief summarizing work by Ellora Derenoncourt and Claire Montialoux.
Research brief summarizing work by Abhay P. Aneja and Carlos F. Avenancio-León.
The COVID-19 crisis is intensifying long-standing debates about whether our safety net provides adequate coverage for the most vulnerable. Safety net spending is typically geared more toward people with jobs than those who are unemployed, and Hilary Hoynes warns that this imbalance will lead to worsened outcomes for our neediest children.
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Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman urge Congress to legislate more forceful measures during the COVID pandemic to avoid another Great Depression. These include increased job protections, robust business support, universal healthcare, and excess profit taxes.
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The recent Nobel Prize for Economics highlighted the valuable role of rigorous experimental research in building evidence for policy-making. It was also an important milestone for women in economics. Catherine Wolfram discussed both recently with Resources for the Future.
Read the full interview on: Resources Magazine
Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman have been strongly advocating for a more robust federal response to the economic dislocations of COVID. In this piece at the Guardian, they press for the federal government to guarantee wages and lost revenues to business facing shutdown.
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