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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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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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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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Stanford economist Charles Jones named to Federal Reserve task force
Jones, a SIEPR senior fellow, co-leads a group that will assess the economic impact of general-purpose technologies, including artificial intelligence, on productivity and jobs.
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Study: Lower-skilled workers earn more in an AI world
New research by Stanford economist Lukas Althoff finds that AI enables lower-skilled workers to compete for higher-paying jobs.
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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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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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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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AI made my expertise more effective
Scott Wallsten, a new SIEPR policy fellow and president of the Technology Policy Institute, uses his experience building a retirement-planning tool to show how AI is reducing the time and cost from idea to product, with implications for companies and the intermediaries they typically hire to build custom tools.
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Maria Polyakova wins health economics' coveted early-career honor
The Kate Ho ASHEcon Medal honors the nation's brightest emerging health economists.
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Are your kids ignoring your money advice?
The Financial Times, in a story about Gen Z’s economic challenges, quotes SIEPR Senior Fellow Annamaria Lusardi on how parents can help their children learn financial literacy. She points out, too, that today's economic reality means "common wisdom" around personal finance no longer works for any age group.
