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Cover page for Renewing Britain
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Vidit Doshi, Huw Spencer
An unenviable industrial in-tray: The new UK government faces the task of developing a new green industrial strategy at the same time as accelerating growth in an economy that has…
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Daniel Schneider
Vol. 92, Pages 100962
Since the mid-1970s, there has been a sharp rise in the prevalence of “bad jobs” in the U.S. labor market, characterized by stagnant wages, unstable work schedules, and limited…
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Sandra Susan Smith
In the summer of 2020, George Floyd’s video-graphed murder by Minneapolis police officers sparked a renewed public discourse about the role that police and policing play in the…
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Will Dobbie
We show that intergenerational mobility changed rapidly by race and class in recent decades and use these trends to study the causal mechanisms underlying changes in economic…
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Luis Armona
We study newsworthiness in theory and practice. We focus on situations in which a news outlet observes the realization of a state of the world and must decide whether to report…
Cover page for Servicing Development
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Dani Rodrik, Rohan Sandhu
The future of developing countries is in services as that is where the jobs will be. Enhancing productivity in labor-absorbing services must be an essential priority, for reasons…
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Michela Carlana
Vol. 114
In this paper, we implement a lab-in-field experiment among around 2000 children enrolled in 14 middle schools in Italy to investigate whether thinking about parental…
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We develop new quasi-experimental tools to understand algorithmic discrimination and build non-discriminatory algorithms when the outcome of interest is only selectively observed…
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Dani Rodrik
The future of developing countries lies in services. Enhancing productivity in labor-absorbing services in particular must be an essential priority, for reasons of both growth and…