Media Mention

Remote workers have fueled a surge in weekday exercise, cosmetics and leisure — especially at the driving range, reports The New York Times. SIEPR's Nick Bloom is quoted.

The US bank system is more fragile than you’d think, reports the Financial Times in the wake of Silicon Valley Bank's collapse. Research by SIEPR's Amit Seru is cited.

Biden nominee for IRS commissioner was asked today, at his Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing, about Black taxpayer research by SIEPR's Dan Ho. More via The Hill.

"Capping the maximum benefit is a promising step toward solvency," writes SIEPR Policy Fellow Andrew Biggs in his latest Wall Street Journal feature.

The Wall Street Journal quotes SIEPR's Nick Bloom on how fully remote workers make up about 13% of working Americans. A new search engine could help those 25M decide where to live.

Research by SIEPR's Nick Bloom shows Manhattan workers are spending ~$12.4 billion less per year due to the work-from-home revolution, reports Bloomberg.

Research by SIEPR’s Petra Persson & Maya Rossin-Slater showing Black mothers and infants fare worse than the poorest white mothers & infants was featured in The New York Times.

"At some level, the reduction in public school enrollment wasn’t just a flight from public schools, it was a flight from communities," SIEPR's Thomas Dee tells AP News.

"Employees worrying about layoffs are now much more likely to come to the office on days they’re supposed to be in," SIEPR's Nick Bloom shared with BBC News.

A cure for homelessness? Research by SIEPR’s Jialu Streeter is cited in a discussion by NPR’s Planet Money regarding the link between health and socioeconomic condition.

According to the latest work-from-home survey by SIEPR's Nick Bloom, 10% of workers report having a main job plus at least one other side gig. Read more on Bloomberg News.

A new study by SIEPR's Maya Rossin-Slater finds that access to paid family leave decreases the likelihood that women leave their job if their spouse has serious health issues.

Quotes Erik Brynjolfsson, senior fellow at SIEPR and at Human Centered AI arguing Twitter should reward account verification, not tax it.

Long Covid proves to have a significant impact on the American labor force and economy, reported CNBC in a recent news segment. SIEPR's Gopi Shah Goda is interviewed.

“Technological progress to support work from home is taking off. If you look three, five or 10 years out, we’re going to have amazing things,” SIEPR's Nick Bloom shared with CNBC.

Research by SIEPR's Gopi Shah Goda suggests a continued exodus from the labor force due to Covid-19, highlighting the broad consequences of the pandemic.

An episode of the Freakonomics podcast explores the rise of nurse practitioners and examines patient care suffer suffers as a result. SIEPR's David Chan weighs in.

"These enrollment and population shifts are consistent with what we are learning about how the pandemic is fundamentally reshaping the broader economy," writes SIEPR's Tom Dee.

"As machines become better substitutes for human labor, workers lose economic and political bargaining power, explains SIEPR's Erik Brynjolfsson via the New York Times.

“We have strengths and a lot of different sectors, it’s not just technology," SIEPR's Irena Asmundson says of California's growing economy. More via The Los Angeles Times.