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| Linda Bilmes
August 24, 2021, Video: "Dr. Linda Bilmes, Daniel Patrick Moynihan Chair in Public Policy and Public Finance at the Harvard Kennedy School, joined Yahoo Finance's Alexis Christoforous and Sibile Marcellus to discuss her recently published study on the long-term costs associated with caring for veterans of America's post-9/11 conflicts, and how taxpayers will be footing the bills for decades to come."…
| Jason Furman
August 20, 2021, Video: "Jason Furman, former Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, joins Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss why he thought the July jobs report was “wonderful” in seeing continued signs of economic recovery and how the Biden policies like infrastructure will continue to help grow the economy better than it was pre-pandemic: “We don’t just need to repair the damage. A lot of what’s coming next is to build something better.”"…
| Natalia Rigol
2021, Paper: "India’s rate of female labour force participation dropped from 37% in 1990 to 28% in 2015. Can greater control over earned income incentivise women to work and influence gender norms? This article discusses findings from a large-scale experiment in collaboration with government partners in rural Madhya Pradesh. It finds that providing poor women with more control of their potential wages increased labour force participation and led…
| Lawrence H. Summers
August 11, 2021, Audio: "Here & Now's Scott Tong speaks with Larry Summers, who was Treasury Secretary under former President Bill Clinton, director of the National Economic Council under former President Barack Obama. He's now president emeritus of Harvard University. Summers discusses the risks of inflation and how government spending on infrastructure will strengthen the economy."…
| Benjamin Enke
August 2021, Paper: "Many applied economic settings involve trade-offs between in-group members and strangers. To better understand decision making in these contexts, this paper measures and investigates the economic relevance of heterogeneity in moral universalism: the extent to which people exhibit the same level of altruism and trust toward strangers as toward in-group members. We first introduce a new experimentally validated, survey-based…
August 10, 2021, Opinion: "Differences in vaccine access and the ability to deploy policy support are creating a growing divergence between advanced economies from many emerging market and developing economies. Faced with high deficits and historic levels of debt, countries with limited access to financing are walking a fiscal tightrope…
| Ricardo Hausmann
August 4, 2021, Opinion: "Vigorous economic competition certainly has a place in today’s world. But economists may currently be overly reliant on this default approach, attributing to a lack of discipline outcomes that may instead result from insufficient solidarity and concern."…
| Kenneth Rogoff
August 4, 2021, Opinion: "The view that central-bank interest-rate policy can and should be the main driving force behind greater income equality is stupefyingly naive, no matter how often it is stated. Central banks can do more to address the inequality problem, but they cannot do everything."…
| Jason Furman
July 29, 2021, Paper: "Thank you for the opportunity to testify on the important topic of economic disparities. I am the Aetna Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and also in the Economics Department at Harvard University. I am also a Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. I do research and teaching on a wide range of economic policy issues. The American economy…
| Frank Dobbin | Robin Ely
July 28, 2021, Paper: "This symposium aims to deepen and expand our understanding of the relationship between the way organizations and managers understand and provide narratives related to inequality and their subsequent diversity practices. The four papers presented in this symposium offer new theoretical insights and mechanisms for the conditions under which organizations are more (less) apt to redress inequality. This symposium brings…