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November 14, 2023
Forget the Economics of Grievance
…But Trump’s successes were deviations from his brand of nationalism-populism. Indeed, the two major economic policy accomplishments of the Trump years were standard conservative economic fare: needed reform of the…
November 14, 2023
Did Child Poverty Really Increase Last Year?
…ate into living standards. No ARP, no expanded CTC, but also less inflation. The bottom line is that economic hardship among children was never before as low as it was…
November 13, 2023
How The IRS Discourages Boomer Charity
…and Jobs Act of 2017. The latter — its many virtues aside — has led some 90% of taxpayers to file for the “standard” deduction, eliminating their incentive to itemize…
November 11, 2023
Why is NYC Telling Teachers to Not Keep Kids Safe?
…that a student is missing school, coming in late or arriving unkempt and hungry. To them, the family may simply need some extra cash or a referral to standard support…
November 2, 2023
How Churches Can Make a Difference in the Lives of Children Who Need Foster Care
…who is in need of foster care and may want to provide it. So what are the obstacles standing in their way? According to Gallup, one is money. Black Americans…
October 31, 2023
It Takes Two
…effects of single parenthood? As Kearney notes, the gold standard in research is a randomized controlled trial in which there is a very specific “treatment” given to one group and…
October 26, 2023
Working from Density
Is the COVID-19-driven surge in remote work temporary or permanent? To assess how the geography of work may evolve, we analyze the pre-pandemic status quo. Casual theorizing might suggest that…
October 25, 2023
The Freedom to Choose
…any price regardless of its costs to national independence and well-being. This idealization of one-earner families radically discounts the value of the higher living standards Americans have enjoyed over the past 75…
October 23, 2023
Teach Your Children Well
…on to become top players. Chess rewards kids for patience. And this, says Moskowitz, is one of the keys to her students doing well in school and particularly on standardized…
October 23, 2023
Spatial Spillovers and the Effects of Fiscal Stimulus: Evidence from Pandemic-Era Federal Aid for State and Local Governments
Abstract We analyse whether US federal aid to state and local governments impacted economic activity through either direct or cross-state spillover effects during the COVID-19 pandemic. Deploying an instrumental-variables framework…