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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.

article Prof. Novosad, Charlie Rafkin '16, and Sam Asher Publish in American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

October 03, 2022

In their paper, "Mortality Change among Less Educated Americans" Asher, Novosad, and Rafkin study U.S. mortality change over the last three decades. They develop an innovative measurement technique that solves a problem that has made it difficult to measure mortality change at specific education levels. They show that mortality changes, at constant education percentiles, can be bounded under minimal assumptions.

article Bruce Sacerdote Quoted in NYTimes

September 16, 2022

Professor Sacerdote's study, "Do senators and house members beat the stock market? Evidence from the STOCK Act," published in the Journal of Public Economics in March 2022 informs this New York Times article.