Productivity is strong in manufacturing, but it's down elsewhere in the private sector, according to Prof. Comin. He noted that productivity is particularly tricky to gauge for knowledge workers, whose contributions aren't as easy to measure.
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Professor Eric W. Zitzewitz was featured in this WalletHub piece about credit cards with no foreign transaction fees.
[more]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.
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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.
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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.
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