Episode 18: The promise of conditional cash transfers
December 23, 2020
Rema Hanna discusses how giving families money affects child development in the long run.
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Episode 17: Gendered laws
December 09, 2020
Penny Goldberg discusses how legal gender discrimination affects women’s economic opportunities around the globe.
Episode 16: The anatomy of inequality
November 25, 2020
Florian Hoffman discusses how income disparities have grown in the US and Europe over the last 40 years.
Episode 15: How economists can help combat COVID-19
November 11, 2020
Boston University epidemiologist Eleanor Murray says the tools of economics can help her field better understand the impacts of the disease.
Bonus episode: How Democrats lost the South
October 30, 2020
Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington discuss why Southern states turned Republican in the 1960s.
Episode 14: Importing polarization
October 28, 2020
Professor Gordon Hanson discusses how competition from China has pushed some communities to the edges of the political spectrum.
Episode 13: Populism's rise
October 14, 2020
Political scientist Yotam Margalit discusses why economic anxiety alone doesn’t explain the appeal of populist politicians.
Episode 12: Taxing hidden wealth
September 30, 2020
Professor Daniel Reck discusses how the US found offshore tax havens and what more it can do.
Episode 11: Reviving distressed communities
September 16, 2020
Tim Bartik of the Upjohn Institute on how economic development policy is shortchanging poor regions.
Episode 10: What hurts minorities’ progress in economics?
September 02, 2020
Professor Gary Hoover discusses how to make the economics profession more welcoming to underrepresented groups.