Taxes and Public Spending

New research by SIEPR Faculty Fellow Adrienne Sabety shows increased hospitalizations, staff turnover, and higher use of physical restraints.

The dollar is typically a refuge in moments of uncertainty. SIEPR senior fellows Arvind Krishnamurthy and Hanno Lustig say this time is different.

A SIEPR Policy Forum examined how government, business and academia can best address the rising economic costs of wildfires.

Uncertainty about how to fix a faltering home insurance market was one of several findings from the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research’s survey of California consumers

New research from Stanford economist Petra Persson is one of the first to examine the economic toll of menopause, which affects one-fifth of the nation’s workforce.

SIEPR Senior Fellow David Lobell examines how U.S. agriculture productivity has been declining amid impacts of climate change and estimates the public R&D needed to reverse course.

Chicago Fed’s Austan Goolsbee enthralled and enlightened as he opined on tariffs, AI’s surge, Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse, and more at the 2025 SIEPR Economic Summit.

True to form, the JPMorgan Chase CEO didn’t hold back at the 2025 SIEPR Economic Summit when discussing geopolitical risks, the ‘Hollywood Squares’ of remote work, AI, and more.

At the 2025 SIEPR Economic Summit, Stanford’s president reflected on the challenges facing higher education amid efforts to cut research funding and raise taxes on endowments.

Q&A: SIEPR senior fellows Peter DeMarzo and Arvind Krishnamurthy discuss their research that offers a new take on what happens to bank balance sheets when interest rates rise.

A new study by SIEPR senior fellow Maria Polyakova sheds important new light on a key question in health care economics.

SIEPR Senior Fellow Sean Reardon co-led an analysis that finds widening achievement gaps but also pockets of success in regaining pre-pandemic achievement levels.

The first California Economic Survey found residents were more upbeat about the economy, immigration and AI than the U.S. overall at year end. Will wildfires and Trump change that?

The 2025 report tapped the work of our scholars in its assessment of pressing economic policy issues ranging from global financial markets to remote work.

Buckle up. With President Trump planning big changes for U.S. economic policy, SIEPR scholars go beyond the headlines to identify key issues everyone should be thinking about.

Research by SIEPR Faculty Fellow Michael Blank sheds light on the impacts of job losses and the trade-offs between unemployment insurance and job retention policies.

SIEPR senior fellows Rebecca Lester and Daniel Ho are untangling the incredibly complex corporate structures some taxpayers use to reduce their tax bills.