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  • Daniel Ho and his colleagues at ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ's RegLab show how the use of machine learning could benefit a U.S. EPA initiative to reduce violations of the Clean Water Act.

    March 08, 2021

  • China's national exam that determines where a student goes to college influences students’ economic prospects for years to come, according to research by Hongbin Li and colleagues.

    February 23, 2021

  • From India and Zimbabwe to the U.S. and Mexico, a growing body of COVID-era studies indicates the need for building trust in health systems and combatting misinformation [...]

    February 15, 2021

  • ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ senior fellows Pascaline Dupas and Muriel Niederle join more than 90 other economists in producing a study showing how women economists are treated differently than men.

    February 09, 2021

  • New research by ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ's Maria Polyakova and her colleagues shows how the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been starkly uneven across race, ethnicity and geography.

    February 01, 2021

  • The pandemic's toll on California is "amplifying inequalities," says ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Director Mark Duggan. "A hell of a lot of people in California are really struggling [...]

    December 14, 2020

  • "It is time to start harnessing the power of the market rather than the government. That is how we will replace dependency with opportunity and upward mobility," [...]

    October 22, 2020

  • Senior Fellow Nicholas Bloom writes in this op-ed, “For many, working from home has been a productivity disaster."

    October 07, 2020

  • Ed Lazear’s recently published research found flaws in long-held theories of how immigrants with varying education levels manage to migrate to the US & other advanced countries.

    September 15, 2020

  • ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Senior Fellow Joseph Grundfest discusses the constitutional issues raised by legislation that uses race or gender as a basis for a quota.

    August 31, 2020

  • Research by ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Senior Fellow Thomas Dee shows that Black students with Black teachers score higher on reading tests than those who did not.

    August 29, 2020

  • ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Senior Fellow Sean Reardon discusses how the pandemic might be affecting parents' decisions of whether to enroll their children in public or private schools.

    August 16, 2020

  • "The pandemic did not only lay bare the implications of the digital divide, it also created a laboratory for studying how best to bridge the divide," says Greg Rosston.

    August 14, 2020

  • The dream of intergenerational mobility is alive: children of immigrants generally experience greater socioeconomic success than they themselves do, according to Ran Abramitzky.

    August 13, 2020

  • ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Graduate School of Business Dean Jonathan Levin & Associate Dean Sarah Soule discuss the school's action plan for increasing racial equity, pointing out the need for [...]

    July 28, 2020

  • "There is little data about how the school closings in the spring affected children from different racial or socioeconomic backgrounds," said ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Senior Fellow Sean Reardon.

    July 27, 2020