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October 2, 2024
Higher Education: Making Education Beyond High School Work for All
…higher education as if it always pays off. Instead, policymakers should leverage market forces to reward forms of higher education that serve students well, and penalize those that do not….
September 10, 2024
America is Still Working
Sometimes it seems like Americans can’t decide whether we work too much or too little. We hear that because of rising inequality and a lack of good jobs, workers must…
May 14, 2024
Understanding Trends in Worker Pay over the Past 50 years
…shift to a service economy and the dissipation of “breadwinner rents” that went to sole male breadwinners in an era when women’s economic opportunities were constrained. Policymakers should seek to…
March 28, 2024
An Early Look at the Child Tax Credit Changes in the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024
…responses. In the meantime, our early look at H.R. 7024’s changes to the CTC provides some initial evidence to policymakers as they consider the legislation’s merits. Read the full report….
December 13, 2023
Stronger Families, Safer Streets
…light of the preexisting literature on the role of family structure in various life outcomes, these findings may have important implications for policymakers. They suggest the need to encourage more…
December 1, 2023
Unlocking Economic Prosperity: Career Navigation in a Time of Rapid Change
…and lay out core design principles and recommendations for the future. At a time of rapid technological transformation, policymakers, employers, educators, intermediaries, and philanthropies must collaborate to build a system…
August 3, 2023
Expanding Economic Opportunities Through Evidence-Based Sector Training
…Harvard Kennedy School’s Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy. The initiative aims to develop concise and actionable reviews of existing research for federal, state, and local policymakers. Since August 2021,…
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
…school closures, 2020–21 and 2021–22. Understanding the relationship between reopening policies and enrollment changes can help policymakers prepare for future challenges that could arise in schools. For example, large enrollment…
September 12, 2022
Section 199A and “Tax Parity”
…income and investment. After 2025, lawmakers have an opportunity to revisit Section 199A and consider alternative reforms to the tax treatment of business income. Read the PDF. Executive Summary In…