The Washington Center for Equitable Growth hosted Jacob Robbins, Ph.D. candidate in economics at Brown University and Junior Fellow at Equitable Growth, for a seminar exploring a number of important macroeconomic trends in the United States over the past forty years. Among these trends: the rise of monopoly power and business concentration, the large increase in asset prices, the decrease in labor’s share of national income, the decline in the interest rate, and the decline in investment.
This event was be the latest installment of our monthly academic seminar series, which aims to elevate important new research on issues related to whether and how economic inequality impacts economic growth. It was be hosted at our offices in Washington, DC.
The Washington Center for Equitable Growth hosted Christopher Ruhm, Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the University of Virginia,for a seminar on the extent to which increases in county-level drug mortality rates from 1999 to 2015 are due to “deaths of despair,” characterized by a deterioration in economic conditions. If you would like to read the paper, you can find it here.
This event was the latest installment of our monthly academic seminar series, which aims to elevate important new research on issues related to whether and how economic inequality impacts economic growth.
The Washington Center for Equitable Growth hosted an installment of its new “Research on Tap” conversation series—a space for drinks, dialogue, and debate. The conversation focused on three questions at the intersection of tax policy, inequality, and growth: What is equitable growth? What can tax reform do to promote it? And how would tax reform motivated by the pursuit of equitable growth compare with the version represented by proposals from the Trump administration and Congress?
What’s the outlook for workers in an economy increasingly dominated by intelligent machines and the global elites who own them? The Washington Center for Equitable Growth hosted a discussion with tech entrepreneur and author Tim O’Reilly on the ideas presented in his newly published book, WTF?: What’s The Future and Why It’s Up to Us. In a conversation with Equitable Growth Executive Director and Chief Economist Heather Boushey, the founder of the eponymous firm O’Reilly Media explored how new technology networks and platforms are shaping the future of work and what that means for economic inequality, how we live, and the choices we make.
The Washington Center for Equitable Growth hosted Lina Khan, Director of Legal Policy for Citizens Against Monopoly and associate research scholar at Yale Law School,for a seminar on the anti-competitive challenges posed by dominant platforms. If you would like to read one of the papers presented, you can find it here.
This event was the latest installment of our monthly academic seminar series, which aims to elevate important new research on issues related to whether and how economic inequality impacts economic growth. It was hosted at our offices in Washington, DC.
The Washington Center for Equitable Growth hosted Neil Mehrotra, an assistant professor of economics at Brown University, for a seminar on the consequences of increased public debt. If you would like to read the paper, you can find it here.
This event was the latest installment of our monthly academic seminar series, which aims to elevate important new research on issues related to whether and how economic inequality impacts economic growth. It was hosted at our offices in Washington, DC.
The Washington Center for Equitable Growth hosted Heather Sarsons, PhD candidate in economics at Harvard University and doctoral fellow in the Inequality and Social Policy program, for a seminar on whether co-authored and solo-authored publications matter differently for tenure for men and women. If you would like to read the paper, you can find it here.
This event was the latest installment of our monthly academic seminar series, which aims to elevate important new research on issues related to whether and how economic inequality impacts economic growth. It was hosted at our offices in Washington, DC.
The Washington Center for Equitable Growth hosted Sandra Black, professor of economics and Audre and Bernard Rapoport Centennial Chair in Economics and Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, for a seminar on the transmission of wealth from parents to children.
This event was the latest installment of our monthly academic seminar series, which aims to elevate important new research on issues related to whether and how economic inequality impacts economic growth. It was hosted at our offices in Washington, DC.
The Washington Center for Equitable Growth hosted Manasi Deshpande, Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, for a seminar on how application costs affect selection into disability programs.
If you would like to read the paper, you can find it here.
This event was the latest installment of our monthly academic seminar series, which aims to elevate important new research on issues related to whether and how economic inequality impacts economic growth. It was hosted at our offices in Washington, DC.
The Washington Center for Equitable Growth hosted Marta Murray-Close, a Research Economist at the U.S. Census Bureau, for a seminar on how much parenthood contributes to the gender wage gap.
This event was the latest installment of our monthly academic seminar series, which aims to elevate important new research on issues related to whether and how economic inequality impacts economic growth. It was be hosted at our offices in Washington, DC.
