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January 24, 2023
“Gig,” Contract, and Nontraditional Workers
…vast labor market actually operates. This is especially true when we consider the “gig” or contract worker economy, which has grown dramatically in the past 15 years due to internet-based…
January 7, 2023
Personal Responsibility, Not Victimhood, Is the Path to Success
…is called the “Success Sequence,” and black and Hispanic young adults who have followed it are markedly more likely to be flourishing financially today, according to a recent report from the American…
January 5, 2023
Faith After the Pandemic: How COVID-19 Changed American Religion
…Benchmark Survey, interviews were conducted with the same people to enable us to measure actual changes in religious behavior or identity. These data give us a unique opportunity to understand…
January 3, 2023
Systemic Disadvantage
…likely contributed to the “marked increase” in mortality rates among middle-aged whites that economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton uncovered in a landmark study published in 2015. They attributed this…
January 1, 2023
Perspective: Is your boss on your DOS? How remote work monitoring can work
…to less time spent on commuting. If so, it’s worth asking whether remote work monitoring is, in reality, a solution looking for a problem. Trust and markets Our entire economic…
December 15, 2022
The Myth of Income Stagnation
…confirm that the conventional wisdom is off-base. According to the CBO, median household income from market activities – labor, business, and capital income, as well as retirement income from past…
November 28, 2022
Public School Instructional Offerings and Enrollment Changes: Evidence from Two Years After the Pandemic
…shifts in the wake of the pandemic could lead to future disruptions in school finance, teacher labor markets, and student preparation. We examine three research questions. First, how did COVID-related…
February 23, 2022
The Case Against Universal Free Lunch
…is primarily a marketing tool to fuel growth in consumer food expenditures and demand for major food commodities: meat, dairy, eggs, wheat. It’s an economics lesson that has very little…
January 20, 2022
Testimony: Incentivize Individual Agency to Achieve Upward Mobility
…married, having children within marriage, or any of the other behaviors that typically mark passage into young adulthood and likely entry into the middle class or beyond? Read the full…
January 3, 2022
Dynamism as a Public Philosophy
…Regulatory institutions appear to be a significant depressant on job satisfaction, particularly credit market regulations (such as interest rate controls) and goods market regulations. The institutions of collective bargaining and regulations on hiring…