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Bipartisan bill seeks to ban cellphones in schools nationwide
The Washington Post cites research by SIEPR's Hunt Allcott, Tom Dee and Matthew Gentzkow suggesting that bans alone are not the panacea for addressing students' academic and mental health struggles.
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Other states are rolling out free childcare for all families. Why not California?
SIEPR Policy Fellow Chloe Gibbs and her work on how to solve California's broken market for childcare are featured in a CalMatters story about the challenges of adopting universal childcare in the Golden State.
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Most firms keep cash from tariff refunds, Fed study finds
Bloomberg covers new research by SIEPR's Nick Bloom and Steven Davis, published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, examining how companies are spending tariff refunds after the Supreme Court struck down Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs.
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Unpacking the real fiscal costs of immigration
The Financial Times exclusively covers a new study by Usama Polani, SIEPR research scholar, measuring the fiscal impacts of immigration in different European countries and the problem of low-earning migrant families where cultural norms prevent females from working.
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The GDP-per-person slowdown threatens global living standards
The Economist highlights research by Scott Rozelle, SIEPR senior fellow, showing steep declines in the number of Chinese who believe that their country is a meritocracy.
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Trump may not be entirely wrong about A.I.
The New York Times cites a new SIEPR Policy Brief on AI and its workforce impacts in an opinion column on whether the technology will prove disruptive or destructive.
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Bessent says the U.S. can grow its way out of the debt crunch. What would it take?
Joshua Rauh, SIEPR senior fellow, tells the Wall Street Journal that reforming Social Security and Medicare is crucial to addressing the country's fiscal problems.
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Crypto fans say stablecoins are good for the dollar. The truth is more complicated
Bloomberg Businessweek turns to Amit Seru, SIEPR senior fellow, for insights into the likelihood that stablecoins will drive demand for U.S. Treasury bonds and, in the process, bring down interest rates.
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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.