When rolling blackouts darkened parts of California this month, SIEPR Senior Fellow Frank Wolak had a painful sense of déjà vu. “California policy makers completely forgot the lessons from the [previous] crisis…in their rush to go green,” he said.
SIEPR Senior Fellow Sean Reardon discusses how the pandemic might be affecting parents' decisions of whether to enroll their children in public or private schools.
"The pandemic did not only lay bare the implications of the digital divide, it also created a laboratory for studying how best to bridge the divide," says SIEPR Senior Fellow Greg Rosston.
The dream of intergenerational mobility is alive: children of immigrants generally experience greater socioeconomic success than they themselves do, according to findings from SIEPR Senior Fellow Ran Abramitzky.
“There’s a spectrum of possible work relationships. And we want to both protect workers along that spectrum, but also allow some amount of flexibility," says SIEPR Senior Fellow Paul Oyer.
SIEPR Senior Fellow Nicholas Bloom warns that the longer Congress takes to decide on federal pandemic economic relief programs, "there’s less relief bang for the buck."
“What’s happening now is more companies that thought they could survive are giving up,” said Nicholas Bloom, an economics professor at Stanford. “The most painful time to lose your job may well be coming up.”
“We are in the very early days of adopting AI . . . there is a tidal wave in front of us,” says Erik Brynjolfsson, SIEPR Senior Fellow and director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab at Stanford HAI.