February 2, 2020
About 1.1 billion people have been lifted out of extreme poverty in the last 25 years. Broad-based growth is the most important source of poverty reduction.
February 28, 2022
Galina Hale discusses the costs of extreme climate events, as well as the costs of transitioning to a more environmentally friendly economy.
February 26, 2023
J. Bradford DeLong discusses why despite the material progress of the last 150 years, the utopia that people in earlier, more materially dire periods believed would come about, remains elusive.
May 17, 2017
Why has U.S. labor productivity growth slowed if technology continues to advance? Future increases in living standards depend on the answer to this paradox.
March 16, 2017
Policy efforts should focus on current immigration trends with policies regulating the flows of highly educated immigrants arriving mainly from Asia.
June 27, 2022
If lessons from the past hold, we would expect that reversing Roe v. Wade would have differential effects by region and demographic group.
February 15, 2022
The U.S. birth rate has fallen by 20% since 2007. If sustained, this could impact economic growth, productivity, and social insurance programs down the line.