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
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.
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.
February 13, 2020
Gilbert Metcalf (Tufts) and Michael Klein (EconoFact) discuss new research which shows that a carbon tax is likely to impact owners of capital more than workers.
December 18, 2019
Michael Klein, Executive Editor of EconoFact and Dan Sichel (Wellesley) highlight some of the problems with low inflation.
December 9, 2019
Michael Klein (EconoFact) and Gilbert Metcalf (Tufts) highlight that curbing greenhouse gas emissions does not have to come at the cost of economic growth.
November 24, 2019
Michael Klein (Tufts) and Marc Melitz (Harvard) discuss the employment costs of tariffs and the broader disruption they can cause for integrated supply chains.
November 18, 2019
Michael Klein (EconoFact) and Dan Sichel (Wellesley) highlight that public investments are often worthwhile. Knowing how they are to be paid for is also important.
November 8, 2019
Michael Klein and Dan Richards (Tufts) discuss the history of anti-trust enforcement in the US and how thinking about anti-trust has changed over the decades.