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November 15, 2024
Calibration: Making AI a Partner at Work
…AI impacts their lives. This is unfortunate. Evidence suggests, rather, that less-educated workers should be more open to trusting the tool. Research from Andrew Caplin, David Deming, and their coauthors shows that…
November 14, 2024
The Rotting of the College Board
…2024, David Leonhardt published a long piece in the New York Times called “The Misguided War on the SAT.” According to the subtitle, “colleges have fled standardized tests, on the theory that…
October 9, 2024
Learning the Right Lessons from the “China Shock”
https://twitter.com/MichaelRStrain/status/1844047782505808245 An influential 2013 paper by economists David Autor, David Dorn, and Gordon Hanson finds an average reduction in manufacturing employment of 90,000 jobs per year from 1990 to 2007 because of…
September 17, 2024
The Future of Work
…Leah Libresco Sargeant, and David McGarry will sit down to delve into the evolving work ethic (or lack thereof) and the economic implications of modern labor trends. From the rise…
September 10, 2024
America is Still Working
Sometimes it seems like Americans can’t decide whether we work too much or too little. We hear that because of rising inequality and a lack of good jobs, workers must…
September 5, 2024
Hurt Pennsylvania’s Workers to Win Pennsylvania’s Votes?
…jobs in industries that use steel intensively. U.S. Steel seems to agree. From the Post‘s article: U.S. Steel CEO David Burritt warned that the deal’s collapse would put at risk “thousands of…
June 20, 2024
The War on Poverty at 60: Lessons to Inform the Future
…panel examined poverty measurement. Panelists agreed that the official poverty measure is outdated and should no longer be used by government agencies. David Johnson from the National Academies of Sciences,…
June 18, 2024
A Unified Theory of Education
…education. In the early 1900s, progressives sought to bureaucratize K-12 into what historian David Tyack termed “the one best system.” In the 1920s, Oregon progressives (along with the anti-Catholic Ku…
June 13, 2024
Why Married Fathers Matter
…Billings and David Deming point to the effect that strict schools can have in elevating the odds that boys end up in prison — especially Black and Hispanic boys. Reeves points to the ways…
May 14, 2024
Biden Can Follow FDR and Dump His VP
Almost exactly 80 years ago, a Democratic leader from the Bronx huddled privately with President Franklin D. Roosevelt. As told in the powerful new book by historian David Roll, “Ascent…