The United States faces more widespread health problems than other developed countries, and they are not distributed evenly across its population. Marcella Alsan, Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, discusses the issues and the way to approach policy solutions.
Objective: We assess how the distribution of parents across firms contributes to parenthood wage gaps in a low-wage US labor market and examine the role of understudied compensating differentials rele
Advances in the scale and sophistication of individual income data compiled across high-income countries have enabled researchers to measure inequality and intergenerational mobility at a highly granu
Since the mid-1970s, there has been a sharp rise in the prevalence of “bad jobs” in the U.S. labor market, characterized by stagnant wages, unstable work schedules, and limited fringe benefits.
Intergenerational mobility captures the distance between the socioeconomic positions of parents versus their adult children.
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