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Blog Post
Welfare Reform and Its Discontents
…Flood, Miriam King, Renae Rodgers, Steven Ruggles, J. Robert Warren, Daniel Backman, Etienne Breton, Grace Cooper, Julia A. Rivera Drew, Stephanie Richards, David Van Riper, and Kari C.W. Williams. IPUMS…
Commentary
Assessing Duplicative Federal Benefit Programs and Preventing Abuse
…Insurance a Bigger Target for Scammers,” AEIdeas, May 27, 2020, https://www.aei.org/opportunity-social-mobility/elevated-claims-and-payments-make-unemployment-insurance-a-bigger-target-for-scammers/. [31] David Manoucheri, “EDD Backlog and Fraud Timeline: How We Got Here,” KCRA 3, June 23, 2021, https://www.kcra.com/article/edd-backlog-and-fraud-timeline-how-we-got-here-california-unemployment-jobless-covid-19/35312619. [32] Relative to the 90 programs…
Blog Post
The Mirage of “Pro-Worker AI” via Public Policy
…businesses and entrepreneurs—not by a policy plan designed in Washington. That’s a core point in a recent critique by economist Joshua Gans of a proposal from Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, and Simon Johnson to…
Article
The End of Work? Not Yet—Maybe Not Ever
…New work emerges Second, there’s the distinction between old and new tasks. Research cited by Goldman Sachs, drawing on work by David Autor and co-authors,1 finds that roughly 60 percent of…
Blog Post
The China Shock, Revisited (Again)
…range of goods cheaper to buy and easier for U.S. companies to produce. America looked relatively smaller, economywise—but became absolutely richer. This top-down, macro view puts the famous China-shock findings of David…
Op-Ed
Can School Reform Be Bipartisan Again?
…have A-F or five-star school rating systems are almost all Republican ones. As David Brooks wrote recently, Republicans at the state level are kicking the Democrats’ butts in education! That’s true for…
Blog Post
Do School Cell Phone Bans Actually Make a Difference?
…and improve outcomes. This month, David Figlio and Umut Özek offered such a study, examining the effects of Florida’s statewide cellphone ban on students in a large unnamed Florida district. The…
Blog Post
Absenteeism Is Up. Does It Matter as Much for Student Achievement?
…David Blazar and colleagues found that in Maryland and North Carolina absences affected achievement both before and after the pandemic, and more for math than reading scores. After the pandemic, they found…
Op-Ed
Subsidized Housing and Upward Mobility
In 1983, Harvard scholars Mary Jo Bane and David Ellwood sought to determine the length of time participants in Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) spent in the program….
Report
New Approaches to Characterize Industries: AI as a Framework and a Use Case
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Op-Ed
Bill Gates Makes a Bet: Foundations of the Future Free Market
“We’re not running out of rich people,” Bill Gates recently told David Wallace-Wells of the New York Times Magazine in an interview about why he was deciding to close the doors of his foundation in 20…
Op-Ed
Congress Is Subsidizing the Wrong Neighborhoods
…the kind of broad economic development opportunity zones were meant to foster. For example, David Wessel in his book “Only the Rich Can Play” documents the opportunity zone designation of…