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| Jason Furman
November 6, 2020, Opinion: "The US economy added 638,000 jobs in October, a substantial increase but continuing the slower pace seen in recent months—even as the economy remains 10 million jobs short of its February peak. At the same time, the number of workers who reported being on temporary layoff fell by another 1.4 million, but with only 2.4 million excess temporarily laid-off workers, there is little additional room for progress here. At…
| Prithwiraj Choudhury
November / December 2020, Paper: "The pandemic has hastened a rise in remote working for knowledge-based organizations. This has notable benefits: Companies can save on real estate costs, hire and utilize talent globally, mitigate immigration issues, and experience productivity gains, while workers can enjoy geographic flexibility. At the same time, concerns include how to communicate across time zones, share knowledge that isn’t yet codified,…
| Daniel Schneider
November 2020, Paper: "We draw on new high frequency survey data collected from repeated cross-sections of Americans over the period June 2020 through October 2020. These data capture rich measures of household financial fragility and employment status. We find no evidence of an economic recovery in household finances as of October of 2020. In fact, by some measures, we find evidence of a building “second wave” of negative shocks to household…
| Edward Glaeser
October 29, 2020, Audio: "Does Zoom mean we all work from home? Will cities bounce back? Will San Francisco and New York fade and smaller cities grow? What problems are the policies causing and can cities reverse downward spirals? How to help unfortunate people who live in cities? Join us for a fast paced discussion with a leader in the field."
October 2020. GrowthPolicy’s Devjani Roy interviewed Marcella Alsan, Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, on COVID-19 and policy making, racial diversity and the health professions, and the importance of safety-net programs. |…
| Ashley Whillans
2020, Paper: "Using a multi-method approach, we investigate whether income volatility is associated with financial impatience—the preference to receive a small sum of money immediately over a larger sum of money later. We find that experiencing more income volatility—including a higher frequency of either income dips or spikes – is associated with greater financial impatience. Using longitudinal data on biannual income, Study 1 demonstrates that…
| Jason Furman
October 2, 2020, Video: "Nonfarm payrolls were expected to increase by 800,000 in September, according to economists surveyed by Dow Jones. The unemployment rate was expected to fall to 8.2%. Kate Moore of BlackRock, Jason Furman of Harvard's Kennedy School, Michael Strain of the American Enterprise Institute and Lisa Cook of Michigan State join CNBC's "Squawk Box" team to discuss."
| Robert Lawrence
September 2020, Paper: "Many countries have launched industrial policy programs to improve their manufacturing competitiveness based on the idea that countries with larger trade surpluses or smaller deficits in manufacturing will have higher shares of manufacturing employment. And as countries try to generate a recovery from the COVID-19 crisis, these programs are being enlarged. But while the higher productivity in manufacturing that these…
| Robert Livingston
2020, Paper: "Organizations are relatively small, autonomous entities that afford leaders a high level of control over cultural norms and procedural rules, making them ideal places to develop policies and practices that promote racial equity. In this article, I'll offer a... "
| Martha Chen
September 23, 2020, Paper: "Informal workers represent 61% of all workers globally—a total of 2 billion workers worldwide (ILO …