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Assessing Duplicative Federal Benefit Programs and Preventing Abuse
…Insurance a Bigger Target for Scammers,” AEIdeas, May 27, 2020, https://www.aei.org/opportunity-social-mobility/elevated-claims-and-payments-make-unemployment-insurance-a-bigger-target-for-scammers/. [31] David Manoucheri, “EDD Backlog and Fraud Timeline: How We Got Here,” KCRA 3, June 23, 2021, https://www.kcra.com/article/edd-backlog-and-fraud-timeline-how-we-got-here-california-unemployment-jobless-covid-19/35312619. [32] Relative to the 90 programs…
Blog Post
The Mirage of “Pro-Worker AI” via Public Policy
…businesses and entrepreneurs—not by a policy plan designed in Washington. That’s a core point in a recent critique by economist Joshua Gans of a proposal from Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, and Simon Johnson to…
Article
The End of Work? Not Yet—Maybe Not Ever
…New work emerges Second, there’s the distinction between old and new tasks. Research cited by Goldman Sachs, drawing on work by David Autor and co-authors,1 finds that roughly 60 percent of…
Blog Post
The China Shock, Revisited (Again)
…range of goods cheaper to buy and easier for U.S. companies to produce. America looked relatively smaller, economywise—but became absolutely richer. This top-down, macro view puts the famous China-shock findings of David…
Op-Ed
Can School Reform Be Bipartisan Again?
…have A-F or five-star school rating systems are almost all Republican ones. As David Brooks wrote recently, Republicans at the state level are kicking the Democrats’ butts in education! That’s true for…
Blog Post
Do School Cell Phone Bans Actually Make a Difference?
…and improve outcomes. This month, David Figlio and Umut Özek offered such a study, examining the effects of Florida’s statewide cellphone ban on students in a large unnamed Florida district. The…
Blog Post
Absenteeism Is Up. Does It Matter as Much for Student Achievement?
…David Blazar and colleagues found that in Maryland and North Carolina absences affected achievement both before and after the pandemic, and more for math than reading scores. After the pandemic, they found…
Op-Ed
Subsidized Housing and Upward Mobility
In 1983, Harvard scholars Mary Jo Bane and David Ellwood sought to determine the length of time participants in Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) spent in the program….
Report
New Approaches to Characterize Industries: AI as a Framework and a Use Case
About the Compendium New Approaches to Characterize Industries: AI as a Framework and a Use Case brings together leading economists, data scientists, and policy experts to tackle one of the…
Op-Ed
Congress Is Subsidizing the Wrong Neighborhoods
…the kind of broad economic development opportunity zones were meant to foster. For example, David Wessel in his book “Only the Rich Can Play” documents the opportunity zone designation of…
Article
How AI Will Harm Working-Class Families
…mothers who [became] unwed and the share of children living in below-poverty, single-headed households,” according to MIT economist David Autor and his colleagues. That’s because men’s work remains immensely important in determining…
Op-Ed
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…