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Changes in children’s social environments have increased class gaps and reduced racial gaps in economic mobility
A recent study from Harvard University’s Opportunity Insights analyzes changes in economic opportunity using new data on 57 ...
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Harvard Center for International Development (CID) Fall Open House
Join us for CID's 2024 Open House at Harvard Kennedy School! Come meet CID faculty, fellows, students, and staff, and learn more about the work that we do and how you can get involved. All are welcome ...
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Minimum Wages and the Rise of Firms’ Robot Adoption in China - Richard Freeman
2020, Paper: "In this study, we analyze the impacts of minimum wages on firms’ robot adoption using novel panel data related to robots imported by firms in China from 2001 to 2012, a period when most ...
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Monetary Policy in Times of Structural Reallocation - Ludwig Straub
2021, Paper: "We characterize optimal monetary policy in response to asymmetric shocks that shift demand from one sector to another, a condition arguably faced by many economies emerging from the ...
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Experimentation, Innovation, and Economics
2020, Paper, "The experimental method not only helps identify causal relationships, but also provides economists with a rich sense of context, focuses research on specific practical questions, ...
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Business Reopening Decisions and Demand Forecasts During the COVID-19 Pandemic - Zoe B. Cullen, Christopher Stanton, Michael Luca, Edward Glaeser
June 2020, Paper, "How quickly will American businesses reopen after COVID-19 lockdowns end? We use a nationwide survey of small businesses to measure firms’ expectations about their re-opening and ...
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Debates in Macroeconomics from the Great Depression to the Long Recession Cycles, Crises and Policy Responses - Arie Arnon
2022, Book: "This book assesses major schools of thought in macroeconomic theory between the Great Depression and the Long Recession, focusing on their analysis of cycles, crises and macro-policy. It ...
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Open Source Software and Global Entrepreneurship - Frank Nagle & Shane Greenstein
June 2020, Paper, "Does more activity in open source lead to more entrepreneurial activity and, if so, how much, and in what direction? This study measures how participation on the GitHub open source ...
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Global Supply Chains in a Post-Pandemic World: Companies Need to Make their Networks more Resilient. Here's How - Willy Shih
September-October 2020, Paper: "The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the vulnerabilities in the production strategies and supply chains of firms everywhere. Coupled with a rise in economic nationalism, ...
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Borders of Prosperity: Immigration's Impact on the U.S. Economy
November 30, 2023, Video: "The role of immigration in shaping the nation's economy remains a hotly contested area of debate. Factors such as the real economic benefits of high-skilled versus ...
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A Brief History of Default - Edwin Truman
Noevember 2021, Opinion: "Barry Eichengreen, Asmaa El-Ganainy, Rui Esteves, and Kris James Mitchener present a valuable, detailed account of the evolution of public debt instruments and institutions ...
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The 2020-21 Arnold C. Harberger Lecture on Economic Development - Carmen Reinhart
June 14, 2021, Video: "The 2020-21 Arnold C. Harberger Lecture on Economic Development with Carmen Reinhart, Vice President & Chief Economist of the World Bank Group. June 14, 2021. Carmen M. Reinhart ...