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SIEPR Senior Fellow Nicholas Bloom found that employees who worked from home were more productive, needed fewer sick days, and took less time off. "9-to-5 actually became 9-to-5."

According to SIEPR Senior Fellow Sean Reardon and his colleagues, the average Black family earning $100,000 a year lives in a neighborhood with an average annual income of $54,000.

A 2014 experiment run by Nick Bloom showed that telecommuting increased productivity by 13%—employees worked more minutes per shift & took more calls while working from home.

Co-sponsored by SIEPR and the ��ɫֱ�� Economics Association, the COVID-19 Policy Hackathon drew more than 800 participants from 78 countries.

Research by Andrew Hall on vote-by-mail programs found that absentee balloting didn’t increase one party’s overall turnout or vote share more than the other’s between 1996 and 2018

“I fear that the prominence of the city, and particularly city centers, will decline,” said SIEPR Senior Fellow Nicholas Bloom.

SIEPR Senior Fellow Nicholas Bloom discusses unemployment in California.

"It will be extraordinarily hard to reach a consensus on a new director general when there isn’t any underlying consensus among members on what the WTO is supposed to do," [...]

Nick Bloom discusses the "Ikea-ization” of office costs—a reference to the way the Swedish superstores helped shift the responsibility for assembly from the seller to the customer.

SIEPR Visiting Prof. Rob Fairlie's recent study shows the number of active business owners in the US plunged by 22% from February to April due to coronavirus.

Will working from home endure after the pandemic? SIEPR Senior Fellow Nicholas Bloom explores the future of the virtual workplace in this WBUR audio segment.

“There’s a massive reallocation shock,” said Nicholas Bloom, professor of economics at ��ɫֱ��. The recession “hits different sectors differently. Some benefit and some fall."

Grant Miller, a health economics expert, found that as states granted the vote to women in the late 19th & early 20th centuries, those states invested more in sanitation [...]

A two-year study done by SIEPR Senior Fellow Nicholas Bloom found that employees who worked from home were more productive, needed fewer sick days, and took less time off.

"To simply return to the prepandemic health care system during a presidential election year would be a mistake. This is a time to think more boldly about the future of the US[...]"

Jonathan Levin, SIEPR Senior Fellow and dean of ��ɫֱ��’s Graduate School of Business, discusses how the coronavirus pandemic will shape M.B.A. programs in September—and beyond.

A report coauthored by Mark Duggan—Director and Senior Fellow of SIEPR—found that mortality rates for people from ages 25 to 34 had risen by more than 20 percent since 2008.

A 2015 case study by Nicholas Bloom found that when one Chinese travel agency assigned a random group of employees to work remotely for 9 months, their productivity went up by 13%.

A recent study by SIEPR Senior Fellow Andrew Hall found that voting by mail did not advantage either party, and might increase voter turnout for both parties.

SIEPR Senior Fellow Ed Lazear and CNBC On-Air Editor Rick Santelli discuss retracing the footsteps of the last recession, good news on wages, and what to expect next month.