Unionization
June 24, 2022
A look at the factors driving greater unionization, and the broader effects of labor unions on wages, corporate profits, firm productivity, and labor demand.
EF Explains
Short videos on key economic concepts and issues. Weighty topics explained in a lighter tone.
June 24, 2022
A look at the factors driving greater unionization, and the broader effects of labor unions on wages, corporate profits, firm productivity, and labor demand.
February 9, 2022
A look at how trade benefits society — consumers, companies, and workers — but creates winners and losers, too.
September 21, 2021
A look at how inflation is calculated, the factors that have contributed to the recent rise in inflation, and the dangers posed by high and ongoing inflation.
July 28, 2021
A look at labor market scarring drawing on studies that chart the lifetime employment and wages of those graduating during previous recessions.
June 16, 2021
A look at some of the causes and consequences of child poverty, the ways in which child poverty rates vary across racial and ethnic groups, and what policy-makers can do to alleviate the scourge of child poverty.
May 5, 2021
In this episode of EconoFact Explains, we highlight current evidence on the long-term fiscal impacts of immigrants.
March 25, 2021
A look at the principles of Pigouvian Taxes as they apply to carbon emissions and sugary drinks.
March 18, 2021
An explainer on some of the natural experiments economists have used to better quantify the costs air pollution imposes.
March 5, 2021
As COVID-19 plunges the US economy into a recession, we look at the reasons this crisis has disproportionately affected women.