Media Mentions Archive
In his new paper, “The End of Economic Growth?”, SIEPR Senior Fellow Charles Jones models what might happen in a world of declining population, arguing that living standards would stagnate as the population gradually vanishes.
Dec 16 2019 | After fatal school shootings, antidepressant use spikes among student survivors | Posted In: SIEPR in the News
A study led by SIEPR Faculty Fellow Maya Rossin-Slater has found that local exposure to fatal school shootings increases antidepressant use among youths.
Dec 10 2019 | The I.R.S. sent a letter to 3.9 million people. It saved some of their lives. | Posted In: SIEPR in the News
The I.R.S. sent a letter to 3.9 million people and a new study co-authored by Faculty Fellow Jacob Goldin shows that these letters may have saved approximately 700 lives.
Nov 20 2019 | Congress gets a lesson in MMT even as deficit nears $1 trillion | Posted In: SIEPR in the News
SIEPR senior fellow John Taylor told lawmakers that reducing government debt and spending would “increase GDP immediately compared to a policy without spending restraint.”
Nov 11 2019 | To control costs expand managed care and managed competition | Posted In: SIEPR in the News
Senior Fellow Emeritus Victor Fuchs discusses managed care and managed competition, as well as their implications.
Oct 28 2019 | Children of poor immigrants rise, regardless of where they come from | Posted In: SIEPR in the News
Children of poor immigrants in America have had greater success climbing the economic ladder than children of similarly poor fathers born in the United States, according to new research coauthored by SIEPR senior fellow Ran Abramitzky.
“Our results provide new estimates of the health costs of climate change and identify environmental drivers of the black-white maternal health gap,” says SIEPR faculty fellow Maya Rossin-Slater, alongside two other health economists.
What are the implications of California’s pension debt? Joe Nation, Project Director of the Pension Tracker Project, shares his thoughts.
Health care is a complicated issue. SIEPR senior fellow and emeritus professor of economics Victor Fuchs clarifies some common fallacies to help voters understand the issue better and inform their voting.
Older, low-income Americans tend to be healthier if they live in more affluent areas of the country, according to research by SIEPR faculty fellow Maria Polyakova.
