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article You Can Teach an Old Drug New Tricks

May 15, 2026

Professor Chris Snyder and his colleague at the Market Shaping Accelerator, Sarrin Chethik, suggest strategies and policy changes to incentivize research into the hidden benefits of familiar drugs.

article Women in the workplace: 50 years of change

March 21, 2023

Decades of progress have seen greater opportunities for women in the workplace, but sizeable gender gaps remain in most indicators of economic achievement. Prof. Claudia Olivetti's research informs this article in Centre Piece.

article Prof. Nina Pavcnik discusses her research on VoxDev Talks

March 08, 2023

In this episode of VoxDevTalks, Nina Pavcnik spoke with Tim Phillips at the 2023 STEG conference at The London School of Economics to discuss new research with Brian McCaig and Woan Foong Wong on the long-term effects of export opportunities to a large destination market for Vietnam.

article "Work and Leisure" study cited

December 21, 2022

The study, 'Work and Leisure in the United States and Europe: Why So Different?' by Prof. Sacerdote and co-authors Alberto Alesina and Edward Glaeser informs a recent Op-ed by the popular columnist Paul Krugman.

article WSJ OpEd: The High Price of Covid Learning Loss

November 22, 2022

A Wall Street Journal editorial cites a new study co-authored by economics professor Douglas Staiger that found a recent decline in 8th-grade national math assessment tests during the pandemic could represent a 1.6% decline in lifetime earnings if allowed to become permanent.