Mark Shepard, a Harvard Kennedy School expert, looks at the crossroads facing the American health insurance system, a patched ...

In this webinar, three Palestinian leaders will share their stories and perspectives on fear and hope in Gaza and the West ...

Why does states’ use of indiscriminate violence against civilians during civil wars weaken some insurgencies but strengthen others?

September 3, 2021, Paper: "I study how people understand, reason, and learn about two major tax policies: income taxation and estate taxation. Using large-scale social economics surveys issued to ...

December 6, 2020, Opinion: "In the evolution of the U.S. economy over the past four decades, one fact stands out as especially puzzling: the large and fairly steady decline in interest rates. Consider ...

November 30, 2020, Paper: "The last generation has witnessed an epochal decline in real interest rates in the United States and around the world despite large buildups of government debt. As Table 1 ...

May 2020, Paper: "We investigate whether ESG ratings predict future ESG news and the associated market reactions. We find that the consensus rating predicts future news, but its predictive ability ...

March 5, 2021, Opinion: "The labor market improved in February 2021 as employers added 379,000 jobs, leaving the economy at 11.9 million jobs below its pre-pandemic ...

February 2022, Paper: "We study how the recent run-up in housing and rental prices affects the outlook for inflation in the United States. Housing held down overall inflation in 2021. Despite record ...

September 1, 2020, Video: "In this lecture Dani Rodrik argues that the model of hyperglobalization we have been pursuing is unsustainable and that we have an opportunity to embark on a sounder, ...

May/June 2021, Opinion: "For decades, the promise of globalization has rested on a vision of a world in which goods, services, and capital would flow across borders as never before; whatever its other ...

September 27, 2021, Paper: "Supply chain disruptions, which have become commonplace, are often associated with glob alization and trade. Little is known about optimal policy in the face of insecure ...