Education
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Will AI solve the productivity puzzle? With Nick Bloom
SIEPR Senior Fellow Nick Bloom appears on the Financial Times podcast "The Economics Show," where he addresses a broad range of issues about AI and its current and future effects on economic productivity, employee hiring processes, and approaches to student learning.
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Study: Lower-skilled workers earn more in an AI world
New research by Stanford economist Lukas Althoff finds that AI enables lower-skilled workers to compete for higher-paying jobs.
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‘It’s not going away’: The Stanford economist who called the AI entry-level jobs crisis early has the receipts
SIEPR Senior Fellow Erik Brynjolfsson and tools developed by his Stanford Digital Economy Lab are featured in a Fortune Magazine story on the raging debate over AI's impacts on the labor market.
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Americans aren’t money savvy, and they’re only getting worse
The New York Times covers at length the latest results from the TIAA Institute–GFLEC Personal Finance Index, an annual report measuring financial literacy rates and coauthored by SIEPR Senior Fellow Annamaria Lusardi.
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Your birth order affects your future, but not for the reason you think
The Washington Post features research by SIEPR's Maya Rossin-Slater showing that exposure to a respiratory illness before a baby's first birthday predicts reduced earnings, education and health later in life.
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Why U.S. test scores are in a ‘generation-long decline’
The New York Times interviews Sean Reardon, a Stanford Graduate School of Education professor and SIEPR senior fellow, on his new research showing declines in student achievement began in 2013, long before the pandemic and after two decades of gains.
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U.S. student achievement was falling long before pandemic, study finds
SIEPR Senior Fellow Sean Reardon and research collaborators at Stanford, Harvard and Dartmouth identify what they call a “learning recession” before COVID, leading to new insights on both the problematic depth of learning losses and promise of progress.
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School cellphone bans deliver benefits – but not right away
New research by SIEPR scholars reveals that while bans aren’t an instant panacea for problems in U.S. classrooms, schools can achieve positive outcomes with persistence.
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Did school cellphone bans work? New study finds mixed results.
New York Times exclusive features findings of the first large study of cellphone bans in U.S. schools, co-authored by SIEPR Senior Fellows Hunt Allcott, Thomas Dee and Matthew Gentzkow.
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Are your kids ignoring your money advice?
The Financial Times, in a story about Gen Z’s economic challenges, quotes SIEPR Senior Fellow Annamaria Lusardi on how parents can help their children learn financial literacy. She points out, too, that today's economic reality means "common wisdom" around personal finance no longer works for any age group.
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The child care crisis: SIEPR shines a light on solutions
Sky-high child care costs are contributing to America’s affordability crisis. A recent SIEPR policy forum focused on policies for bringing down costs while ensuring quality care.
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Ran Abramitzky awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
Economist Ran Abramitzky, a SIEPR senior fellow, wins a prestigious fellowship that recognizes scholars and scientists for their outstanding achievements and exceptional promise.
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AI’s big productivity boost? It’s happening from the sofa
A new study by SIEPR’s Michael Blank is among the first to examine an overlooked effect of generative AI: It’s significantly boosting how much people get done at home.
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The people who are using AI at home to free up their time
The Wall Street Journal features new research by Michael Blank, SIEPR faculty fellow, measuring how much generative AI is helping people to be more productive at home.
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Many US adults are skipping parenting or having fewer kids — and it’s forcing schools to close
The Guardian cites research by, and quotes, SIEPR Senior Fellow Thomas Dee in a story about the economic crisis facing U.S. public schools as enrollment declines. Dee sheds light on the financial struggles schools are facing, and the trade-offs they are making to maintain public funding.
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College leaders reflect on the future of higher education
At the SIEPR Economic Summit, Stanford Provost Jenny Martinez, former President John Hennessy and other university leaders discussed the challenges and opportunities facing higher ed.
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What people get wrong about women’s rights
Writing in The Economist, Alice Evans, a visiting professor at SIEPR, challenges elites to stop thinking there's a one-size-fits-all solution to global gender inequality.
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COVID relief funds are gone, but more states commit to high-impact tutoring
The 74, a national news site focused on education, features SIEPR's Susanna Loeb and her research in a story about federal and state governments' continued investment in student tutoring programs even after $120 billion in pandemic-linked federal funds expired.
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How women researchers changed our understanding of women’s economic lives
Annamaria Lusardi, SIEPR senior fellow and director of the Initiative for Financial Decision-Making, is one of 30 women featured in a Smithsonian oral history project for her work in advancing women's financial independence.
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How to fix California's child care crunch
A new SIEPR policy brief unpacks the economic cost of California’s broken child care market and sheds light on the public investment needed for a universal child care program.
