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Childcare and inequality

May 23, 2022

How much time do parents of different socioeconomic status spend with their kids?

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A generational shift in fertility

April 12, 2022

Why are birth rates in the United States dropping?

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Reframing development in Africa

March 16, 2022

Nathan Canen and Leonard Wantchekon discuss state capture and economic growth in Africa.

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African manufacturing

March 9, 2022

How has industrialization affected labor productivity in sub-Saharan countries?

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Reimagining public safety research

December 8, 2021

Yale sociologist Monica Bell talks about why economists must change the way they study police.

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Regressive innovation

December 6, 2021

To what extent was the opioid epidemic driven by demand?

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Divergences in life expectancy across US states

November 24, 2021

Christopher Foote and Ellen Meara discuss rising geographic disparities in US mortality.

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Neoliberalism and Latin America

September 27, 2021

Did Washington Consensus policies help developing economies emerge from crisis?

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Work and childcare during the pandemic

September 1, 2021

Stefania Albanesi discusses the effects of the COVID-19 recession on the US labor market.

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Tracking the "open science" movement

August 30, 2021

Economics is rapidly transitioning toward new transparency norms.