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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…
Article
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…
Blog Post
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…
Op-Ed
The American Dream Is Not a Coin Flip, and Wages Have Not Stagnated
…Oren Cass claim that workers have endured “decades of stagnant wages.” Progressives typically agree, as when New York Times journalist David Leonhardt asserted in his recent book that, “For almost half a century now, incomes and…
Op-Ed
AI and the Future of Work Looks Bright
…even wildly. The good news is that while real-world results are still scarce, available data points toward positive trends for both high-skill and middle-skill workers. A recent paper by David Deming, Christopher Ong…
Working Paper
The Targeting of Place-Based Policies: The New Markets Tax Credit Versus Opportunity Zones
Abstract For a place-based policy to succeed, it must target the right areas—typically those with lower economic development and resident well-being. The U.S. has two major place-based tax policies: the…
Op-Ed
Which Men Cheat Least? Republican Husbands, Especially ‘Religious Wife Guys’
…name from David Portnoy’s sports-focused media empire. Portnoy is famously anti-woke but not socially conservative—rejecting COVID lockdowns and gender ideology on the one hand, but also traditional conservative positions on…
Op-Ed
A Side Effect of the Booming Job Market: Wage Inequality Is Way Down
…Not too shabby for an economy that has led the world in the post-COVID recovery. A recently revised 2023 study by MIT’s David Autor and his collaborators, Arindrajit Dube and Annie McGrew, adds to…
Blog Post
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…
Op-Ed
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…
Op-Ed
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…
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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…