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Op-ed
Compiling My Work on Work Incentives
…Evidence from the CPS Food Security Supplement,” with Christopher Jencks, Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government Faculty Research Working Papers Series, No. RWP04-027 (June, 2004) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=600601 “Welfare Reform…
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…
Blog Post
The “Upward Mobility Act” Seeks to Overcome Benefit Cliffs
…Sen. John Husted (R-OH) and matching House legislation offered by Rep. Blake Moore (R-UT). Their “Upward Mobility Act” encourages states to test reforms addressing benefit cliffs and other impediments to recipients’ working…
Op-Ed
AI Changes NOTHING About What Students Need to Learn
…has yielded similar exhortations, the calls took on newfound fervor in the digital age. Back in 1989, former Assistant Secretary of Labor Arnold Packer, a Johns Hopkins scholar and co-author…
Blog Post
AI Has Come for K–12 Education
…argues AI isn’t the end of traditional academics. There is also the promise that AI might improve instructional delivery. My colleague John Bailey argued last year that AI tutors can consistently adapt…
Op-Ed
How Not to Redefine Poverty
…different approaches. In no small measure, the choice of $3,000 and $1,500 thresholds seems to have reflected a desire on the part of President Lyndon Johnson to deem one-fifth of…
Op-Ed
What Could the New Federal Tuition Tax Credit Mean for School Choice?
…sense of the shifting landscape. Ashley directs Johns Hopkins’ Institute for Education Policy and is a leading authority on “educational pluralism.” Whatever your take on educational choice, we seek to…
Op-Ed
The Link Between Maternal Drug Use and Rising Infant Mortality
…too: Johns Hopkins researchers found that between 2021 and 2022, infant deaths in Texas rose from 1,985 to 2,240, a 12.9 percent increase. The data, in fact, suggest a national rather than…
Op-Ed
A Second Reconciliation Bill Should Focus On Reducing Deficits
…possible. Second, for specifics, they should start with targeted policies House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) says were “left on the cutting room floor” in the OBBB. For example, just as…
Op-Ed
A Hidden Explanation for the Wealth Gap on Racial Lines That Emerges in the Push to Promote Public Housing
…Weldon Johnson, and Langston Hughes, historically black neighborhoods labeled as slums were taken by eminent domain and cleared. This was the case, for instance, with the Hill neighborhood at Pittsburgh,…
Op-Ed
The New Era for Nonprofits: America’s Old System of Federally Funded Nonprofits is Gone. What Comes Next?
…benefits to urban residents. Democratic Presidents John Kennedy and then especially Lyndon Johnson picked up on and sought to embed these approaches into federal policies. They formed the backbone of…
Blog Post
When Human Fatigue Becomes AI’s Weakest Link
…but it could result in a truckload of expensive and potentially dangerous technical debt the next. A 2014 study by Stanford University economist John Pencavel shows that output per hour…