Inequality

SIEPR's Jared Bernstein details in a New York Times guest essay how federal agencies with limited resources, and lacking Trump administration support, can implement parts of a sweeping new law aimed at increasing supply of affordable housing.

Joshua Rauh, SIEPR senior fellow, argues in a New York Times op-ed against a California ballot initiative to levy a one-time tax on the state's resident billionaires.

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.

Neale Mahoney, SIEPR director and a leading scholar on medical debt, discusses on the Tradeoffs podcast research into strategies for helping patients manage health care costs.

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.

Neale Mahoney, SIEPR's Trione Director, tells the New York Times that a Trump administration proposal to allow patients to take out loans from health insurers to pay for their rising medical costs "seems to be hugely out of touch with where people are" given strained household budgets.

SIEPR's Erika McEntarfer, former head of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, details her own failed attempt to file a claim in a NPR segment on the dysfunction in state-run unemployment insurance programs.

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.

A Bloomberg opinion columnist details the extensive research by SIEPR's Ran Abramitzky in challenging the latest political rhetoric around U.S. immigrants, including the claim that they don’t work hard, follow the law or integrate into American society.

The Economist showcases a new book, "Moral Economics," written by Alvin Roth, a SIEPR senior fellow and Nobel laureate, that examines collisions between morality and markets for, say, sex work, recreational drugs and horse meat..

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.

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.

The Guardian features a new Nature study from SIEPR's Marshall Burke and Solomon Hsiang showing that the U.S. is the largest contributor to economic losses worldwide from rising temps.