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Equitable Growth in Conversation: An interview with Byron Auguste
Heather Boushey and Byron Auguste, Managing Director of Opportunity@Work, discuss current problems with the labor market, how the problems may be mostly on the demand side, and how we might “rewire” the labor market.
Can school finance reforms improve student achievement?
School resources play a major role in student achievement, and finance reforms can effect major reductions in inequality between high- and low-income school districts.
Home economics
The family is the building block of our economy. So why do we make it so hard for today’s families to balance home and work?
Energy transitions in the United States
This paper examines the challenges and opportunities energy workers have faced in past energy transitions in the coal industry, the traditional oil extraction industry, and the electrical generation industry to help us assess the potential...
Give working women their due for caregiving in economic policy debates
Our nation’s inattention to the causes and consequences of work-life conflict is a serious hurdle for many families. Fixing it will require serious research followed by evidence-based policymaking to change how work is done in...
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The long-term impacts of universal prekindergarten in the United States
Get the data we used to create the interactive graphics accompanying the report, "The benefits and costs of investing in early childhood education." All data is available at the state level.
A snapshot of the long-term impacts of universal prekindergarten
Research is increasingly demonstrating that investments in education provide significant benefits to children, families, and society as a whole, accelerating economic growth and promoting opportunity over time. This study describes and analyzes the benefits and...
The economic and fiscal consequences of improving U.S. educational outcomes
This new study addresses a key challenge confronting the United States—how to promote both widely shared and faster economic growth. It does so by analyzing and describing the effects of […]
State-by-state minimum to median wage ratios
The data Under “Downloads”, to your right, you will find the data used to create the interactive “Where does your state’s minimum wage rank against the median wage?”. Please cite […]
Latest Equitablog
More Musings on the Fall of the House of Uncle Milton…
This, from Paul Krugman, strikes me as… inadequate: Paul Krugman: Why Monetarism Failed: “Right-wingers insisted–Friedman taught them to insist–that government intervention was always bad, always made things worse… …Monetarism added […]
Must-read: Megan McArdle: “Listen to the Victims of the Free Market”
Must-Read: For the most part, an excellent piece by Megan McArdle. But… McMegan: There is a lot of good reason to think that the elasticity of labor demand at the […]
Must-read: Peter Ganong and Daniel Shoag: “Why Has Regional Income Convergence in the U.S. Declined?”
Must-Read: Peter Ganong and Daniel Shoag: Why Has Regional Income Convergence in the U.S. Declined?: “The past thirty years have seen a dramatic decline in the rate of income convergence… […]
Must-reads: April 13, 2016
Required reading from Derek Thompson, Andrew Gelman, and others.
The disappearance of monetarism
I just hoisted a piece I wrote 15 years ago—a follow-up to my “Triumph of Monetarism” that I published in the Journal of Economic Perspectives. However, it is, I now recognize, clearly inadequate.