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SIEPR Senior Fellow Frank Wolak, who studies electricity markets, said the move to close the power market won’t prevent blackouts.

Gopi Shah Goda, SIEPR Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, discusses the history of social security and how it has shaped the United States.

SIEPR Senior Fellow Sean Reardon discusses how the pandemic might be affecting parents' decisions of whether to enroll their children in public or private schools.

"The pandemic did not only lay bare the implications of the digital divide, it also created a laboratory for studying how best to bridge the divide," says Greg Rosston.

The dream of intergenerational mobility is alive: children of immigrants generally experience greater socioeconomic success than they themselves do, according to Ran Abramitzky.

“There’s a spectrum of possible work relationships. And we want to both protect workers along that spectrum, but also allow some amount of flexibility," says Paul Oyer.

SIEPR Senior Fellow Nicholas Bloom warns that the longer Congress takes to decide on federal pandemic economic relief programs, "there’s less relief bang for the buck."

“What’s happening now is more companies that thought they could survive are giving up,” said Nicholas Bloom. “The most painful time to lose your job may well be coming up.”

“We are in the very early days of adopting AI...there is a tidal wave in front of us,” says Erik Brynjolfsson, SIEPR Sr Fellow & director of the ��ɫֱ�� Digital Economy Lab [...]

Chad Jones, SIEPR Senior Fellow & ��ɫֱ�� GSB prof., posits that natalist policies could mean “the difference between...exponential growth in population & living standards [...]

��ɫֱ�� Graduate School of Business Dean Jonathan Levin & Associate Dean Sarah Soule discuss the school's action plan for increasing racial equity, pointing out the need for [...]

"There is little data about how the school closings in the spring affected children from different racial or socioeconomic backgrounds," said SIEPR Senior Fellow Sean Reardon.

Despite high-profile concerns that all-mail elections might favor Democrats, Andrew Hall co-authored recent research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [...]

"Companies told they are under a formal investigation may submit a white paper or other materials that make their case to the regulator [...]," says Joseph Grundfest.

“The euphoria [of working from home] is kind of peaking,” says SIEPR Senior Fellow Nicholas Bloom.

A recent study coauthored by Rebecca Diamond found that affordable housing developments led to crime reductions in low-income areas & had no effect in higher-income neighborhoods.

“People who have the economic wherewithal to be with their kids and the resources to create safe and developmentally richer environments are going to be hugely advantaged [...]"

“Talking loud, singing and shouting approximate the risk of coughing and sneezing. Tiny particles can get in the air and infect you,” says Dr. Mark R. Cullen.

“A key next step, I think, is finding out explicitly how close you need to be to a well for it to cause harm,” says SIEPR Faculty Fellow Marshall Burke.

For a randomized controlled trial aimed at fighting the pandemic and protecting public health, Abhijit Banerjee collaborated with other researchers, including Arun Chandrasekhar.