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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…
November 22, 2024
A Side Effect of the Booming Job Market: Wage Inequality Is Way Down
…Not too shabby for an economy that has led the world in the post-COVID recovery. A recently revised 2023 study by MIT’s David Autor and his collaborators, Arindrajit Dube and Annie McGrew, adds to…
November 15, 2024
Calibration: Making AI a Partner at Work
…AI impacts their lives. This is unfortunate. Evidence suggests, rather, that less-educated workers should be more open to trusting the tool. Research from Andrew Caplin, David Deming, and their coauthors shows that…
November 14, 2024
The Rotting of the College Board
…2024, David Leonhardt published a long piece in the New York Times called “The Misguided War on the SAT.” According to the subtitle, “colleges have fled standardized tests, on the theory that…
October 9, 2024
Learning the Right Lessons from the “China Shock”
https://twitter.com/MichaelRStrain/status/1844047782505808245 An influential 2013 paper by economists David Autor, David Dorn, and Gordon Hanson finds an average reduction in manufacturing employment of 90,000 jobs per year from 1990 to 2007 because of…
September 17, 2024
The Future of Work
…Leah Libresco Sargeant, and David McGarry will sit down to delve into the evolving work ethic (or lack thereof) and the economic implications of modern labor trends. From the rise…
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…
September 5, 2024
Hurt Pennsylvania’s Workers to Win Pennsylvania’s Votes?
…jobs in industries that use steel intensively. U.S. Steel seems to agree. From the Post‘s article: U.S. Steel CEO David Burritt warned that the deal’s collapse would put at risk “thousands of…