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October 15, 2025
Don’t Choose Your Own Adventure: Understanding Middle-Class Earnings Trends
What should we make of earnings trends in the United States? People can differ in their opinions about whether some reported trend is impressive or cause for concern, of course….
September 24, 2025
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….
June 25, 2025
De-Skilling the Knowledge Economy
…expanded training accounts, stronger early education, and targeted reemployment support are essential to reduce inequality and promote opportunity. Introduction As David Veldran and I examined in our 2024 report, The…
June 10, 2025
The Surprising Epilogue to an Infamous Conn Job
…“moved hundreds of claimants onto the disability rolls based on manufactured medical evidence and boilerplate decisions.” The scheme started to unravel after a 2011 Wall Street Journal expose on disability judge David…
June 4, 2025
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…
May 23, 2025
How AI Will Harm Working-Class Families
…mothers who [became] unwed and the share of children living in below-poverty, single-headed households,” according to MIT economist David Autor and his colleagues. That’s because men’s work remains immensely important in determining…
May 7, 2025
Did ‘China Shock’ Throw Millions of Americans Out of Work?
…in the World Trade Organization. He cites research by David Autor, David Dorn, and Gordon Hanson, linking to two of their papers. But it appears that Secretary Bessent’s numbers use…
May 2, 2025
Without Qualified Workers, Our CHIPS Investments Could Be Money Down the Drain
Three years ago, the Biden administration, backed by big bipartisan majorities in Congress, launched the CHIPS and Science Act to revitalize domestic semiconductor manufacturing. After decades of outsourcing that reduced the U.S. production share…
April 28, 2025
You Autor Know
…of economists David Autor, David Dorn, and Gordon Hanson (ADH).[i] However, their research has been widely misunderstood, in part due to questionable claims made in their papers. Those papers are primarily…
April 9, 2025
Measuring and Building Human Leadership in an AI World
…human soft skills—long considered too complex and subjective to measure objectively. Conducted by Ben Weidmann and David Deming et al. at the Harvard Kennedy School, the study involved 249 participants…