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May 7, 2025
Did ‘China Shock’ Throw Millions of Americans Out of Work?
…in the World Trade Organization. He cites research by David Autor, David Dorn, and Gordon Hanson, linking to two of their papers. But it appears that Secretary Bessent’s numbers use…
May 2, 2025
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…
April 28, 2025
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…
April 9, 2025
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…
March 19, 2025
AI and Jobs: Measuring Impact and Building New Assessment Tools
…Gold, Reporter, Axios 11:30 a.m. Q&A 12:00 p.m. Adjournment Related Content The Age of Uncertainty—and Opportunity: Work in the Age of AI Brent Orrell and David Veldran | American Enterprise…
February 21, 2025
Hope And A Future: Forging Strong And Stable Families In Ohio, 2025
…American dream offers. Read the full report here. David Leonhardt, Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream. (Random House, 2023): xii. Rachel Wolfe, “The American Dream Feels…
February 20, 2025
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…
February 11, 2025
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…
January 24, 2025
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…
December 12, 2024
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…