COVID-19
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SIEPR Senior Fellow Nicholas Bloom warns that the longer Congress takes to decide on federal pandemic economic relief programs, "there鈥檚 less relief bang for the buck."
August 10, 2020
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鈥淲hat鈥檚 happening now is more companies that thought they could survive are giving up,鈥 said Nicholas Bloom. 鈥淭he most painful time to lose your job may well be coming up.鈥
August 05, 2020
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Chad Jones, SIEPR Senior Fellow & 黄色电影 GSB prof., posits that natalist policies could mean 鈥渢he difference between...exponential growth in population & living standards [...]
July 29, 2020
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"There is little data about how the school closings in the spring affected children from different racial or socioeconomic backgrounds," said SIEPR Senior Fellow Sean Reardon.
July 27, 2020
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Despite high-profile concerns that all-mail elections might favor Democrats, Andrew Hall co-authored recent research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [...]
July 27, 2020
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鈥淭he euphoria [of working from home] is kind of peaking,鈥 says SIEPR Senior Fellow Nicholas Bloom.
July 24, 2020
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鈥淧eople who have the economic wherewithal to be with their kids and the resources to create safe and developmentally richer environments are going to be hugely advantaged [...]"
July 23, 2020
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鈥淭alking loud, singing and shouting approximate the risk of coughing and sneezing. Tiny particles can get in the air and infect you,鈥 says Dr. Mark R. Cullen.
July 22, 2020
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For a randomized controlled trial aimed at fighting the pandemic and protecting public health, Abhijit Banerjee collaborated with other researchers, including Arun Chandrasekhar.
July 16, 2020
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鈥淲e鈥檙e all suffering from Zoom overload and feeling worn down," says SIEPR Senior Fellow Nicholas Bloom.
July 14, 2020
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鈥淚t is incumbent on us as scientists to convey to the American public what we鈥檙e finding and seeing very, very clearly and loudly,鈥 said SIEPR Senior Fellow Jay Bhattacharya [...]
July 14, 2020
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鈥淭he PPP program has been a windfall for the banks at taxpayers鈥 expense, even if some are donating the fees to worthy causes,鈥 said SIEPR Senior Fellow Anat Admati.
July 13, 2020
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A 2015 study by SIEPR Senior Fellow Nicholas Bloom found that allowing employees to work from home four out of five days a week yielded significant productivity gains.
July 13, 2020
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鈥淭raining is not something that can be just left to the private sector . . . ultimately you are going to need public investment,鈥 said Erik Brynjolfsson.
July 13, 2020
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The explosion of working from home, coupled with anti-immigration administration policies, 鈥渃reates the perfect storm for shifting high-tech jobs overseas,鈥 said Nick Bloom.
July 12, 2020
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Employees have no legal recourse against colleagues who they feel aren鈥檛 doing enough鈥攐r going overboard鈥攖o prevent the spread of COVID-19, said SIEPR Senior Fellow Alison Morantz.
July 11, 2020
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Q&A: The economic impact of suspending visas for international students
SIEPR's Ran Abramitzky says the federal policy to revoke student visas for those whose classes will be fully online hurts the U.S. economy, innovation, and productivity.
July 10, 2020
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A 2016 paper by SIEPR economists 鈥渟uggests that black-owned businesses have more difficulty in accessing formal credit channels鈥...]
July 07, 2020
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Andrew Hall found that universal voting by mail had no effect on partisan outcomes, did not appear to give an advantage to any particular racial, economic or age group [...]
July 07, 2020
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According to a new analysis by Colleen Honigsberg, more than 4,000 lending institutions are in line to split between $14.3 billion to $24.6 billion in processing fees for PPP loans
July 07, 2020