Politics and Media
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SIEPR's Scott Rozelle, an expert on rural development in China, weighs in on China's economic outlook, efforts to end poverty, and what's in store for "the China we don't see."
September 14, 2021
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鈥淎ll evidence suggests a business as usual scenario where we don鈥檛 rapidly scale up our efforts to get fuels out of the forest, we鈥檙e going to see a lot more extreme wildfire[...]"
September 13, 2021
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Research by SIEPR's Matthew Gentzkow suggests limiting time on platforms like Facebook significantly reduces polarization of views on policy issues.
September 13, 2021
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鈥淔atal shootings have large and persistent impacts on the mental health of local youth,鈥 writes Maya Rossin-Slater and fellow researchers from 黄色电影, Yale, and Northwestern.
September 09, 2021
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"The ability of our government to digest digital innovations鈥攁nd to respond nimbly and pragmatically to the problems they create鈥攊s essential to the health of American society."
September 07, 2021
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Allegations of fraud in the 2020 U.S. election show no signs of slowing down. "Evaluating the American election system and ensuring it is secure is crucial. [...]"
August 27, 2021
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"Now is the time for governments to step up and protect their citizens from the burden of medical debt," says SIEPR Senior Fellow Neale Mahoney.
August 20, 2021
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Shortly before the $1.2T infrastructure bill cleared the Senate floor with bipartisan support, Mississippi Sen. Roger Wicker quoted research by SIEPR Senior Fellow Gregory Rosston.
August 04, 2021
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Financing today's digital economy could result in a $160B increase in economic output, suggests research by SIEPR's Nick Bloom.
August 03, 2021
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SIEPR's Ramin Toloui is in talks to be President Biden's nominee for assistant secretary of state for business [...]
July 30, 2021
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At a recent Congressional hearing, the chief executives of Wall Street's six largest banks were asked to name the greatest threat to their companies and the wider financial system.
July 03, 2021
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Hooked on your smartphone?
Social media and smartphone use rank above watching television, smoking and boozing in the top five things people think they ought to be doing less of.
June 21, 2021
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Senior Fellow Andrew Hall's research is cited in this column about voting rights.
March 16, 2021
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Research by Senior Fellow Andrew Hall shows that voting by mail didn鈥檛 increase voter turnout or give Joe Biden an Election Day edge.
March 05, 2021
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As President Trump's second impeachment trial gets underway, SIEPR's Andrew Hall debunks claims of widespread election fraud and dead people voting, pointing to his research [...]
February 08, 2021
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SIEPR's Andrew Hall says a proposal in Georgia to roll back voting-by-mail is not the way to improve a system that voters just showed they liked in the 2020 election.
February 08, 2021
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As Janet Yellen's confirmation hearings for Treasury Secretary get underway, John Taylor provides his insights on how economic policy will look like under her tenure.
January 18, 2021
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Saumitra Jha draws historical parallels to what happened at the US Capitol in January and explains his research on how social networks of influential individuals can undermine[...]
January 17, 2021
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As Parler, a conservative social media platform, fights against getting cut off by various tech giants, Bloomberg taps SIEPR Sr Fellow Alan Sykes for input on its antitrust claim.
January 11, 2021
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Trailblazing economist and presidential adviser Edward Lazear dies at 72
The SIEPR senior fellow founded the field of personnel economics.
November 24, 2020