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Austerity in 2009-2013, Alberto Alesina, September 29, 2014, Paper, The deficit reduction policies (often referred to as fiscal “austerity”) followed by several OECD…
Harvard Study Warns Business Community Of Economic Inequality Risks, Michael Porter, September 18, 2014, Audio. "We’ve heard about the risks that come with the growing gap between…
Changing Markets: The Future of U.S. Energy Security and Oil Export Policy. Lawrence Summers, September 9, 2014, Video. "As unconventional oil and natural gas production in the…
The Value of Postsecondary Credentials in the Labor Market: An Experimental Study. Claudia Golden, Lawrence Katz, September 2014. Paper. "We study employers’ perceptions of…
Informal Employment and Development: Patterns of Inclusion and Exclusion, Martha Chen, September 2014, Paper, At present, there is renewed interest in the informal economy…
Culture and Institutions. Alberto Alesina, September 1, 2014, Paper. "A growing body of empirical work measuring different types of cultural traits has shown that culture…
(Measured) Profit is Not Welfare: Evidence from an Experiment on Bundling Microcredit and Insurance. Richard Hornbeck, September 2014, Paper. "We analyze a randomized trial in…
Jobless men are the thorniest social issue in the US. Edward Glaeser, August 31, 2014, Opinion. "WHEN I was born, in 1967, only 5.2 percent of men between ages 25 and 54 were…
How to Deregulate Cities and States. Edward Glaeser, Cass Sunstein, August 24, 2014, Opinion. "A lot of attention has been devoted in recent years to overregulation at the…
How to Deregulate Cities and States; Cost-benefit analysis and 'lookbacks' could lift the unnecessary burdens of occupational licensing. Edward Glaeser, Cass Sunstein, August…