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Our blog is the place where our staff and guest bloggers present clear, fact-based posts that make the connections between economic inequality and growth for the broad policy community and journalists based on the latest academic research.

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Should-read: Leonardo Bursztyn, Thomas Fujiwara, and Amanda Pallais: ‘Acting wife’: Marriage market incentives and labor market investments

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Assessing the economic effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

Tax & Macroeconomics
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Should-read: George W. Evans and Bruce McGough: Equilibrium selection, observability and backward-stable solutions

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Should-read: Oscar Jorda, Katharina Knoll, Dmitry Kuvshinov, Moritz Schularick, and Alan M.Taylor: The rate of return on everything, 1870–2015

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Should-read: Prospect Magazine: Back to school: top economists on what their subject needs to learn next

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Crisis, rinse, repeat: The Great Depression, the Great Recession

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Should-read: Nick Bunker: What does this tell us?

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Should-read: Justin Fox: Paul Ryan’s roadmap was an epic fiscal failure

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Weekend reading: “Equal Pay Day” edition