Must-reads: April 14, 2016

• Dina D. Pomeranz: Benefits of Welfare Payments
• Megan McArdle: Listen to the Victims of the Free Market
• Peter Ganong and Daniel Shoag: Why Has Regional Income Convergence in the U.S. Declined?
• Nick Autiello: “#ConcreteEconomics: The Hamilton Approach to Economic Growth and Policy is one of the best and most useful books of the year.”
• Heather Boushey: The Political Economy of Time and ‘Work-Life Conflict’

Should Reads:

• Diane Coyle: Why economic policy overlooks women
• Max Roser: Global Inequality and Poverty
• Narayana Kocherlakota: How to Make the Fed Work Better
• Peter Dizikes: New Study Shows Rich, Poor Have Huge Mortality Gap in U.S.