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January 3, 2023
Systemic Disadvantage
…reanalyzed it with two additional controls: number of loans with only one buyer — a rough stand-in for families with a single head of household — and Equifax Risk Score,…
January 1, 2023
Perspective: Is your boss on your DOS? How remote work monitoring can work
…managers fear someone, somewhere isn’t working as hard they could. Much of this concern seems to be misplaced. Stanford University’s Nicholas Bloom and his research team estimate productivity will significantly increase simply due…
December 15, 2022
The Myth of Income Stagnation
…about inequality? Here, the CBO computes the size of the gap between higher- and lower-income households using a standard statistical measure that accounts for the entire distribution of income (the…
December 9, 2022
“Automatic Stimulus”: How It Would Have Increased the Record Unemployment Benefits Paid During the Great Recession and Pandemic
…long-standing pattern of contemporary lawmakers determining when emergency benefits should be paid, some have proposed instead using unemployment rate “triggers” in the future to automatically turn and keep on such…
November 28, 2022
Public School Instructional Offerings and Enrollment Changes: Evidence from Two Years After the Pandemic
…on public school enrollment. From a descriptive standpoint, we find that public school districts that offered the most remote instruction in the 2020–21 school year saw the largest declines in…
February 23, 2022
The Case Against Universal Free Lunch
…that pregnant pigs be provided enough space to stand and turn around—a law that yielded histrionic headlines, such as “Bacon May Disappear in California.”12 I’d love to be proved wrong,…
January 3, 2022
Dynamism as a Public Philosophy
…benefits the least advantaged more so than would strict equality — has typically represented the stance of American conservatives, who argue that state action should be evaluated not based on…
November 16, 2021
The Changing Face of Social Breakdown
…in loving commitment to others stands a better chance of showing people both what they have to gain by coming off the sidelines and what they have to lose by…
July 2, 2021
Addressing the Shortcomings of the Supplemental Poverty Measure
…rates to the public. Adopt an absolute standard—and potentially a purely relative standard—for adjusting poverty thresholds over time. An absolute standard should update thresholds based on the Chained Consumer Price…
May 4, 2020
How To Educate an American
In the years after A Nation at Risk, conservatives’ ideas to reform America’s lagging education system gained much traction. Key items like school choice and rigorous academic standards drew bipartisan support…