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February 14, 2023
Microsoft Is Getting Ready to Eat Google’s Lunch
…big leap from standard search engines and trust that in the coming months and years the underlying technology would become stronger and more supple and reliable and the database backing…
February 13, 2023
The Eerie Familiarity of California’s Boom-Bust Cycle
…hire from the ranks of the recently unemployed are being constrained by the capital shortage. Stanford economist Erik Brynjolfsson believes the layoffs will ultimately help redistribute tech talent away from cryptocurrency and…
February 8, 2023
Where the Tech Layoffs Are Hitting Hardest
…a cost standpoint, and it may also add up when firms are thinking about the types of coders who can work long hours and generate the breakthroughs the companies want….
January 7, 2023
Personal Responsibility, Not Victimhood, Is the Path to Success
There are too many barriers that stand in the way of the American dream for black and Hispanic young adults — from failing schools to unsafe streets. Unfortunately, Covid made these…
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,…