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Bloomberg - Fed's Soft Landing Hinges on Job Market Doing Something Strange; Prof. Robert Shimer discusses unemployment and labor supply

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SSD Welcomes 9 New Faculty

Yuting Dong Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of History Assistant Professor beginning July 1, 2023 As a historian of modern Japan and East ...

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Research shows how partisanship undermines the effectiveness of public policy

Partisan opposition to the ACA caused higher costs and less efficient healthcare markets By Sarah Steimer Partisan polarization has increas...

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The Atlantic - They're Really Doing It; Prof. Michael Greenstone comments on cost-to-benefit ratio of tax credits in former version of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022

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Fox Business - Top Trump WH economist slams Biden administration's 'recession' spin; Prof. Casey Mulligan discusses economic trends he believes indicate a coming recession

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Daily Kos - Open thread: Women Uber drivers are paid less and are rated lower; Article cites research by Prof. John List on gender pay gap for Uber drivers

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WSJ - In Defense of Pharmacy Benefit Managers; In op-ed, Prof. Casey Mulligan claims that pharmacy benefit managers are taking the blame for high drug prices

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Washington Post - People from elite backgrounds increasingly dominate academia, data shows; Article uses Prof. John List as a socioeconomic outlier in the discussion of a study finding the vast majority of economists come from generations of wealth

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WSJ - Opinion: Biden Is Practically Engineering a Recession; Prof. Casey Mulligan co-authors op-ed on the regulatory and tax policies that may lead to a recession

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Observer - An Economist Explains Why So Many Business Ideas Fail to Scale; Prof. John List discusses his recent book 'The Voltage Effect'