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The Folk Economics of Housing

Income Equality in Nordic Countries: Myths, Facts, and Lessons

Human Capital Investment after Loss of Ability - Reskilling subsidies for workers that enroll in Bachelor's programs after work accidents pay for themselves 4x

Administrative burdens limit the ability of people to access benefits that they are eligible for

Incumbent energy providers in the US stand to lose massively by allowing the integration of renewable energy into the power grid, creating strong incentives to block new transmission lines

Google pays manufacturers handsomely to be the default search engine on devices

Children in Denmark with immigrant parents tend to have worse economic, education and crime outcomes

Health and educational outcomes improved for each American cohort across the 20th century until the period 1947-1960

Bankruptcy as Implicit Health Insurance

Gavi, a vaccine program led by the Gates Foundation, WHO, UNICEF and World Bank, has provided over $16 billion in funding for vaccination in low-income countries since 1999

Nearly two centuries of data show that immigrants commit fewer crimes than US-born citizens, study finds.

A 2010 law in France that led to forcible mergers of municipalities resulted in an annual 12.5 percent increase in building permits

The Soviet Union sent millions of its educated elites to gulags across the USSR because they were considered a threat to the regime

The import tariffs introduced by President Trump in 2018–2019 adversely affected US exporters by raising input costs – The cost increases for exporters were substantial enough that the import tariffs were also the equivalent of a US export tariff of 2-4 percent.

Study finds Unemployment Insurnace(UI) had little to no impact on job finding, contradicting the theory that unemployment benefits incentivize people to stay unemployed and also suggests that temporary benefit supplements are a promising tool for countering economic downturns.

Semiconductors and Modern Industrial Policy

AER study: While both the US and China lost on the US-China trade war, a lot of bystander countries benefitted by being able to provide substitutes for the US or Chinese goods targeted by tariffs

The collapse of India's vulture population led to an additional 100,000 human deaths per year

More stringent occupational licensing is associated with less competition, higher prices, and no increase in demand or consumer satisfaction

The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the key legislative achievement in the first year of the Donald Trump administration, substantially raised the federal debt and disproportionately increased incomes for the most affluent

The history and future of workplace automation (2015)

In 2007, Australia imposed a curfew on first-year drivers, banning them from driving late at night with two or more passengers (this form of driving accounted for one-fifth of traffic fatalities)

What happens when we pay public high school teachers based on performance

Prices at local grocery stores decrease and product variety increases when more housing is built in an area

A new study by Hadavand et al

Within-firm pay transparency narrows coworker wage gaps, but also causes employers to bargain more aggressively to lower average wages

The Ebola scare of 2014 led to lower Democratic vote shares in the 2014 election – In the weeks prior to the 2014 election, four ebola cases were diagnosed in the US

Abandoning the gold standard helped countries recover from the Great Depression – The most comprehensive analysis to date, covering 27 countries, supports the economic consensus view that the gold standard prolonged and deepened the Great Depression.

AER study: The economic cost of populism is high

The digitization of books on Google Books has significantly boosted the demand for physical versions of the books

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