Media Mentions
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What groups need affirmative action?
Research from SIEPR Senior Fellow Ran Abramitzky analyzing the economic trajectory of immigrants to the United States is featured in "The Morning" from The New York Times.
March 15, 2024
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The government has a workforce crisis. One of its best-kept secrets can fix it.
A new op-ed by SIEPR's Daniel Ho and Anne Joseph O’Connell discusses the federal government's workforce crisis and how to fix it. Read more in The Washington Post.
March 12, 2024
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Anat Admati on how to never bail out banks again
A new podcast interview with SIEPR’s Anat Admati discuses why banks are structurally disincentivized to behave like other types of companies.
March 04, 2024
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No, immigrants aren't more likely to commit crimes than US-born, despite Trump's border speech
A new USA Today piece discusses how immigrants have had lower incarceration rates than U.S. born people over the last 150 years. Research by SIEPR's own Ran Abramitzky is cited.
March 01, 2024
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The truth about illegal immigration and crime
Immigrants over the last 150 years have had lower incarceration rates than people who were born in the United States. Research by SIEPR's Ran Abramitzky is cited.
February 29, 2024
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How Americans feel about the economy
The latest episode of 538Politics by abcnews features SIEPR Senior Fellow Neale Mahoney. Listen here to learn about his research on consumer sentiment, inflation, and partisanship.
February 01, 2024
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Why are Americans so gloomy about their great economy?
Inflation, partisanship and the pandemic have made them glummer than the numbers suggest they should feel, writes The Economist. Research by SIEPR's Neale Mahoney is cited.
January 14, 2024
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Millennials and Gen Z are giving up on one of their core values and investing more like boomers
As the economy has tightened, younger investors are showing they are less willing to sacrifice gains in support of ESG initiatives. SIEPR's Amit Seru is quoted by Business Insider.
January 11, 2024
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Chastened economists hopeful for U.S. soft landing, Fed rate cuts
A new Bloomberg piece quotes SIEPR Senior Fellow John Taylor, on predicting lower interest rates if inflation continues to fall.
January 08, 2024
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Has school become optional?
In the past few years, chronic absenteeism has nearly doubled. The fight to get students back in classrooms has only just begun. SIEPR's Thomas Dee weighs in.
January 08, 2024
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What happened to the artificial-intelligence investment boom?
SIEPR's Erik Brynjolfsson is one of the many economists who believe AI is about to transform the global economy. Read more about the productivity boom to come via "The Economist."
January 07, 2024
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How runaway disability compensation is straining Veterans Affairs
A new op-ed by SIEPR’s Mark Duggan published by The Hill connects the growth in veterans’ disability to declines in veterans’ employment and our crisis in military recruiting.
November 11, 2023
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Bloomberg: World Economy Latest
A mix of revenue hikes and benefit trims will be needed, SIEPR’s Mark Duggan concluded in a paper published by Aspen Economic Strategy Group.
November 10, 2023
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Most California students fall short of grade-level standards in math and reading, scores show
“The state’s claim that ‘recovery is underway’ overstates the optimism these data justify,” SIEPR's Thomas Dee, an expert in education & economic data, tells The Los Angeles Times.
October 18, 2023
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7 ideas to reduce the racial retirement gap
“Social Security does reduce the racial gap in retirement wealth in its current form, but it could go farther by increasing the minimum benefit,” SIEPR's Gopi Shah Goda tells AARP.
October 18, 2023
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The Five-Day Office Week Is Dead
Working from home is here to stay. I can prove it with data — lots and lots of data, writes SIEPR's Nick Bloom in a new op-ed for The New York Times.
October 16, 2023
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Does working from home damage productivity? Just look at the data.
Does working from home work? SIEPR's Nick Bloom weighs in via a new op-ed published by The Hill.
September 29, 2023
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There's a good chance you're not planning for retirement correctly. Here's why.
Understanding how long you're likely to live once you hit retirement age is key to retirement planning, SIEPR's Annamaria Lusardi tells CBS News.
September 27, 2023
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Victor R. Fuchs, ‘Dean’ of American health care economists, dies at 99
Victor Fuchs, SIEPR Senior Fellow Emeritus, was among the first to offer a comprehensive explanation, and a possible solution, for the country’s rising health care costs.
September 20, 2023
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Victor Fuchs, a pioneer of health-care economics, dies at 99
Victor Fuchs, a pioneering Stanford University economist who sought to explain why Americans don’t live longer, healthier lives, died on September 16.
September 20, 2023