Prof. Madeline McKelway is a Co-editor of this literature review that helps to summarize the evidence on women's labor force participation.
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February 16, 2024
Economics Professors Elizabeth Cascio, Bruce Sacerdote, Doug Staiger, along with Sociology Professor Michele Tine were asked to investigate the affect SAT scores had on Dartmouth admissions.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
September 30, 2022
Professor Elizabeth Cascio and co-author Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach's paper "First in the Class? Age and the Education Production Function" published in 2016 is featured in this article in The Atlantic magazine.
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.
August 23, 2022
Prof. Eric Zitzewitz's study of prediction markets informs this New York Times article.