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April 1, 2023
Minimum Wages and Poverty: New Evidence from Dynamic Difference-in-Differences Estimates
…counterfactuals to geographically proximate states (“close controls”), which poorly match treatment states’ pre-treatment poverty trends. Moreover, an examination of the post-Great Recession era — which saw frequent, large increases in…
March 27, 2023
Here Are the Kinds of Jobs Chat AI Is Likeliest to Affect
…the authors go on to point out that the speed and processes by which AI penetrates the economy is not just a matter of immediate exposure to chat technology itself,…
March 15, 2023
Can Businesses Boost Upward Mobility?
…and wages. Dr. Holzer discussed the importance “high-road employers” place on job training and other investments to drive worker productivity. Matt Sigelman of the Burning Glass Institute spoke next and…
March 6, 2023
The Federal AI Shambles
…providing insight and guidance on longer-term regulatory matters. The commission should be made up of individuals from a broad range of backgrounds, including, law and technology, certainly, but also such…
February 23, 2023
Distance to 100: An Alternative to Racial Achievement Gaps
…longer blinded by demographic achievement gaps would quickly discover that roughly equal numbers of black, white and Hispanic students are reading below grade level nationally. (See Figure 2.) This matters…
February 23, 2023
Heeding the Warning from the Future
…venerable delusions in a little under 250 pages. It also provides plenty of prime comedic material. The book’s lively tone, by turns flummoxed, frustrated, and amused, comes through in Weill’s…
February 14, 2023
Microsoft Is Getting Ready to Eat Google’s Lunch
…or better than any other encyclopedia, a solid foundation for finding deeper resource materials and subject to constant checking by competing perspectives. ChatGPT has some of the same limitations as…
February 2, 2023
Prioritizing Money Over Marriage, Today’s Parents Are Making a Big Mistake
…too many parents today do not appreciate how much marriage and family matter to their own children’s future well-being. Based on our conversations with young adults, today’s parents often encourage…
January 7, 2023
Personal Responsibility, Not Victimhood, Is the Path to Success
…schools. Such an approach has substantial public support. A recent study by Nat Malkus at the American Enterprise Institute suggests that the success sequence is quite popular among parents as well as…
January 3, 2023
Systemic Disadvantage
…mattered. “Libertarian fundamentalists” and “cosmopolitan elites” pushing deindustrialization, rather than “culture,” were deemed the headwaters of white poverty for the simple reason that it’s easier to claim victim status when…