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A survey by Pew Research reveals the Covid-19 pandemic has made parents pessimistic about their children’s future [...]

Did you know medical debt is the No. 1 source of debt collections, surpassing debt from credit cards, utilities, auto loans and other sources combined? Learn more about the reality

Would consumers benefit if tech companies provided tools to more forcefully control their screen time? Possibly. Matthew Gentzkow weighs in on how to exercise self-control [...]

2021's record-setting summer of heatwaves, drought, wildfires, floods and hurricanes is forcing many to confront the realities of clime change [...]

The health care industry repeatedly tells people they need to make well-informed choices about their treatment. But if people aren't getting the information they need [...]

“Billion wise, trillion foolish”: Expanding vaccine-production infrastructure could have saved the global economy almost $5 trillion, according to research by SIEPR's Susan Athey.

In a post-pandemic scenario, NYC officials might look to raise taxes to make up for losses, but “this can start the spiral of death,” warns SIEPR's Nick Bloom. [...]

"I think the end result that most players are looking for here is not IP waiver in particular, it's expanded global access to the vaccines," says Lisa Larrimore Ouellette.

SIEPR's Lisa Ouellette talks about the mismatch between social value and R&D investment: "The pandemic has illustrated both political and market failures in vaccine development."

SIEPR Senior Fellow Neale Mahoney estimates $140 billion in medical debt was in collections last year.

Research by faculty fellows Maria Polyakova and Petra Persson is cited to discuss the rates at which relatives follow one another into the medical profession.

During the COVID-19 crisis, Americans have coped in varying ways SIEPR Senior Fellow David Grusky explains, from incapacitating anxiety to extraordinary fortitude.

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 [...]

Neale Mahoney joins leading economists to discuss wasteful spending in health care. A study by Mahoney & Liran Einav shows the US could save $4B a year at long-term care hospitals.

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

In general, staying at home mechanically slows the pandemic, but the effect of curfews are unclear as other business restrictions are already in place to reduce public interactions

Restaurants, gyms, cafes & other crowded indoor venues accounted for 8 in 10 new coronavirus infections in the early months of the U.S. epidemic, according to a new analysis [...]