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Social Security is on track to go broke in 11 years, creating hardship for the 80 million Americans who need it. Congress must act now to prevent the crisis, Mark Duggan writes.

"When it comes to AI's effect on the workforce, the real challenge is wages, not jobs," says SIEPR senior fellow Erik Brynjolfsson.

“Billion wise, trillion foolish”: Expanding vaccine-production infrastructure could have saved the global economy almost $5 trillion, according to research by SIEPR's Susan Athey.

In a post-pandemic scenario, NYC officials might look to raise taxes to make up for losses, but “this can start the spiral of death,” warns SIEPR's Nick Bloom. [...]

"I think the end result that most players are looking for here is not IP waiver in particular, it's expanded global access to the vaccines," says Lisa Larrimore Ouellette.

Research by SIEPR Faculty Fellow Christopher Tonetti shows how competition from imports pushes domestic laggards to adopt more efficient practices and technologies.

The surge in working from home is leading firms to spend heavily on connectivity, says SIEPR’s Nick Bloom.

Often tapped for insights on antitrust matters, SIEPR senior fellow Mark Lemley weighs in on the implications of the latest big case between Apple and Epic, the maker of “Fortnite.

Lawrence Goulder addresses environmental justice concerns and makes the that "a carbon tax is inherently progressive, narrowing the income gap between rich and poor households."

In a story on California's unemployment chaos and growing debt, SIEPR Director Mark Duggan did not mince words: "It's the worst. The most regressive. Appalling. [...]"

The Economist highlights a recent paper by SIEPR Sr Fellow Chad Jones on the unintended consequences of a declining population on economic growth: Fewer people means fewer ideas.

SIEPR's Lisa Ouellette talks about the mismatch between social value and R&D investment: "The pandemic has illustrated both political and market failures in vaccine development."

SIEPR Senior Fellow Nick Bloom is cited for his research on working from home and what he calls the "donut effect" on city centers as commuters switch to WFH post-pandemic.

Suddenly saddled with $6.7 billion in debt, Texas needs to make policy changes to help accelerate its economic recovery. In this op-ed, Mark Duggan makes the case for a solution.

Companies plotting work-from-home options will be making trade-offs between creativity and productivity, writes SIEPR's Nick Bloom.

SIEPR Senior Fellow Neale Mahoney estimates $140 billion in medical debt was in collections last year.

In this London-based audio interview, SIEPR's Nick Bloom discusses diversity risks and other impacts of working from home.

Senior Fellow Andrew Hall's research is cited in this column about voting rights.

Research by faculty fellows Maria Polyakova and Petra Persson is cited to discuss the rates at which relatives follow one another into the medical profession.

During the COVID-19 crisis, Americans have coped in varying ways SIEPR Senior Fellow David Grusky explains, from incapacitating anxiety to extraordinary fortitude.