News Archives
SIEPR’s John Shoven finds that waiting just a few months before retiring has enormous advantages no matter how much you make. A Bloomberg columnist highlights the new research, predicting “it’ll become a staple of retirement advice in coming years.”
SIEPR’s Trione Visiting Professor Emily Oster writes in the New York Times about how a new law changed behavior "more effectively than a thousand public service announcements might have.” Vaccinations are up, and the risk of disease outbreaks has gone down.
This Washington Post article discusses a study co-authored by SIEPR Senior Fellow Ran Abramitzky, highlighting its findings on Norwegian immigrants.
This U.S. News and World Report piece highlights new research from SIEPR’s Rebecca Diamond, suggesting policies on “food deserts” might be off-target. Bringing supermarkets with healthier food options into low-income neighborhoods is apparently not doing much to boost healthy eating.
America is two million workers short of where it should be because many are on disability — or the couch, SIEPR Senior Fellow Ed Lazear writes in the Wall Street Journal.
In this New York Times op-ed, SIEPR Senior Fellow Matthew Gentzkow contends it's time to stop casting social media as the villain behind the nation's growing political divide. His research shows otherwise.
The Atlantic features new research by SIEPR’s Maya Rossin-Slater that found the more 90-degree days fetuses or infants experienced, the lower their earnings were in adulthood.
SIEPR’s Roger Noll discusses in this CNBC story how a provision in the tax plan could undermine new stadium projects.
New research by SIEPR’s Matthew Gentzkow — featured in CNN Money — finds that the average retail chain could increase profits by 7 percent if stores switched to a flexible pricing system.
In this Wall Street Journal opinion piece, three senior fellows — Michael Boskin, John Cogan and John Taylor — and George Shultz, honorary chair of the SIEPR Advisory Board, co-author a letter to the Treasury Secretary, contending the Republican tax bills could boost GDP by 3 to 4 percent.
