Media Mention
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What's behind the big surge in US government bond yields
Bloomberg podcast, "Odd Lots," turns to Darrell Duffie, SIEPR senior fellow and presenter at the recent Jackson Hole Fed meeting, for insights into what's driving global bond yields to their highest levels since 2008 and what policymakers can and can't do to bring them back down.
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How work makes families more equal
The Economist highlights research by Alice Evans, SIEPR faculty fellow, showing that men's sense of honor is closely tied to keeping women secluded from society, including the workforce, in major regions around the world.
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Some states banned the use of food stamps to buy soda. Did it work?
The New York Times, writing about government efforts to lower sugar consumption, references new research by SIEPR's Hunt Allcott concluding that a nationwide ban on using SNAP funds to buy sugary drinks would provide about $1.1 billion a year in economic benefits, mostly through lower healthcare spending.
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The Treasury market’s coveted status as a safe haven is fading
New research by SIEPR Senior Fellow Hanno Lustig, showing that growing doubts that U.S. Treasuries are a "safe" asset, figures prominently in the Wall Street Journal's coverage of a surprise Trump administration move to try to lower the U.S. government's borrowing costs.
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A mandatory $1 coin report? Here’s why the government can’t focus
In a Washington Post essay, SIEPR Senior Fellow Daniel Ho explains how obsolete laws exacerbate government inefficiency and how his Stanford RegLab team is using AI to eliminate costly "policy sludge."
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AI was supposed to destroy jobs. Where’s the carnage?
The Guardian relies on SIEPR's recent Policy Brief on AI's impact on the labor market for insights into why an AI-driven jobs apocalypse has not materialized.
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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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The good news and the bad news about the new housing law
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.
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Warsh’s task forces have a big job at hand. It may need to get even bigger.
Amit Seru, SIEPR senior fellow, writes in Barron's that the Federal Reserve's quest for independent evaluations of its core operations overlooked one critical area: financial stability.
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Fax and telegram? New York’s archaic requirements get an A.I. overhaul.
In The New York Times, pioneering AI research methods by SIEPR Senior Fellow Daniel Ho and his Stanford RegLab team are featured in a story about a New York State initiative to cut through red tape across government agencies.
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It failed in France. It would be a disaster in California.
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.
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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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With millions expected to lose coverage, states look for new ways to prevent medical debt
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.
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Who gets to choose a 'good death'?
Alvin Roth, Nobel laureate and SIEPR senior fellow, appears on Freakonomics Radio, talking about his new book, "Moral Economics," and what it says about the "repugnant" market for assisted suicide, which New York State recently legalized.
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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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Can’t pay medical bills? Trump officials suggest getting a loan
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.
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The fired labor economist who couldn't get unemployment
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.
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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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The ‘assimilate or go home’ crowd could use a history lesson
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.
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Understanding geoeconomics in a volatile world
Matteo Maggiori, SIEPR senior fellow, explains the return of economic competition among powerful countries and predicts it will shape the next decades of international relations, in the latest issue of the International Monetary Fund's Finance & Development magazine.