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| Jon M. Jachimowicz
July 26, 2021, Paper: "From a systems perspective, solving inequalities will require a diverse group of stakeholders to understand what fuels and maintains inequality—ideally informed by empirical findings. This symposium presents five empirical papers that, together, provide a framework for individuals to start to understand inequality from three different lenses—income, power, and culture—and how they can take action against inequality in the…
| Dani Rodrik
June 25, 2021, Video: "(Translated, Dani Rodrik interview in English) What threats has globalization brought? Can the return to the nation-state be a way to moderate these excesses? The answers of one of the most important political economists of his generation, the Turkish Dani Rodrik. The professor of international political economy at Harvard University tells us about the globalization trap in a [In]Pertinent Interview, the Francisco Manuel…
| Jeffry Frieden
July 21, 2021, Paper: "Diversified business groups play a major role in the economies of many developing countries. Business group members, often from the same communal, ethnic, or tribal group, have or develop interpersonal relations that make it easier to obtain information and monitor compliance related to transactions that require a strong measure of trust. This in-group cohesion facilitates profitable and productive economic activity.…
| John Beshears | David Laibson
July 19, 2021, Paper: "Does automatic enrollment into a retirement plan increase financial distress due to increased borrowing outside the plan? We study a natural experiment created when the U.S. Army began automatically enrolling newly hired civilian employees into the Thrift Savings Plan. Four years after hire, automatic enrollment increases cumulative contributions to the plan by 4.1% of annual salary, but we find little evidence of…
| Jason Furman
July 18, 2021, Audio: "Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Harvard professor Jason Furman, a once top economic advisor to former president Barack Obama, about inflation and the U.S. economy." Listen Via NPR
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| Joan Donovan
July 2021, Paper: "Amid the roiling debate over the impact of the internet on democracy, we reflect on a recent contribution to this topic in these pages by Francis Fukuyama, who proposes that internet companies open their platforms to outside content-moderation services. We support exploring new approaches that promote greater user control and autonomy on social media platforms but take issue with his narrow definition of the problem. While the…
| Edward Glaeser
July 14, 2021, Paper: "To determine the appropriate level of infrastructure spending, there is no alternative to aggregating the results of project-by-project cost-benefit analysis. With widespread variation in both the benefits and costs of projects within broad infrastructure asset classes, it is important to recognize that the returns to some additional highway lanes are much higher than others, and that the costs of extending wire-line…
| David Pedulla
July 14, 2021, Paper: "Field experiments have proliferated throughout the social sciences and have become a mainstay for identifying racial discrimination during the hiring process. To date, field experiments of labor market discrimination have generally drawn their sample of job postings from limited sources, often from a single major online job posting website. While providing a large pool of job postings across labor markets, this narrow…
| Boris Groysberg | Paul M. Healy
July 14, 2021, Paper: "Progress on shrinking the gender pay gap has been glacially slow. Though it has narrowed somewhat over the past 40 years, stark inequities persist. In 1980, women earned 64 cents for every dollar that men earned. By the end of the decade, that amount had increased to 74 cents, but since then, gains have been much more modest.1…
| Megan Greene
July 12, 2021, Opinion: "With Covid cases rising, is Europe’s economic rebound a mirage? Surging case rates, spurred by the Delta variant, suggest that opening economies and the return of tourists to Mediterranean beaches may not yet signal a turn in the pandemic. Those who believe Europe is on the upswing, however, say rising vaccination rates will make a difference. And they note fiscal help, in the form of the Recovery and Resilience Fund, is…