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Americans who think it's best for men to earn the money while women stay home are more likely to support tariffs, a study of 16 years of US election data finds

US college athletes have historically been banned from receiving market wages

PhDs born to parents with graduate degrees tend to earn more in academia than 1st Gen PhDs

In 2010, China implemented a home-buying restriction policy whereby each family unit could only own a single unit

Economic policy for AGI

A new study finds India’s income and wealth inequality has surged since the 1980s, accelerating after 2000

A randomized study of 3,000 low-income Americans found that giving participants $1,000/month for 3 years reduced labor-force participation by 4.2 percentage points and work hours by ~1–2 hours/week

Xi pushes 'Greater BRICS' economic ties to give bloc larger global role

Using data from 10 countries, researchers find that the expansion of high-paying finance jobs is a major driver of rising geographic inequality, not simply the growth of big cities.

The Economics of Open-Weight Inference

The AI Build-Out Is Becoming the Biggest Economic Bet in U.S. History

A simple model of AI-aided economic growth

A study of the US corporate tax cuts finds they increased firms’ investment, sales, profits, employment and payroll

The AI Build-Out Is Becoming the Biggest Economic Bet in U.S. History

Working on Economics with Fable 5

What will our economic future look like?

The Curious Economics of Lab Monkeys

What reversing, modernising old games tells us about the economic impact of AI

Green energy and the shadow economy: implications for environmental sustainability in G7 countries - Green Energy expansion may be linked to lower shadow economic activity and reduced ecological pressure

A 450 year catch record shows the fishery that once funded medieval Europe's salted fish trade collapsed from climate shifts, overfishing and economics together, not any one cause.

Economics Nobel Laureates' Letter Supporting the California Billionaire Tax [pdf]

Labor unions have a positive spillover on nonunion labor, helping to raise the wages of all workers

A large experiment finds that removal of noncompete clauses increases labor mobility between competing firms by 36–52% and raises workers’ total earnings by 12–17%

Using data from 1978 to 2014, it was found that austerity measures significantly increased wage and earnings inequality both in short and medium run in OECD countries

More than a fifth of all “austerity generation” British children have been scarred by poverty for at least half their childhood, a direct legacy of the welfare benefit cuts imposed by Conservative governments in recent years…

People who grew up with high economic connectedness earn more

She Popularized Economics. Then She Was Erased from History. Why?

A USAID project gave cash to 300 farms in Liberia and Malawi, then tracked how the money impacted those households over the next 2 years

Dutch bank: Extreme heat could wipe out Dutch, EU economic growth this year

New Study Finds: Black Representation in Hollywood Falls When the Economy Gets Tight

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