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Illiberal Playbooks: Preparing for Attacks on LGBTQI+ Rights in the U.S.
Event Description: As advocates in the United States brace for attacks on LGBTQI+ rights from an emboldened anti-LGBTQI+ movement employing the illiberal playbook, it is crucial to learn from those ...
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Should race be used in determining risk for disease? Yes. And no.
Age, gender, and lifestyle are key factors in predicting risks for illnesses like cancer and heart disease, but adding race ...
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Esteban Morales Herrera’s career journey has been one of relentless dedication to uncovering truth and fostering peace in conflict zones. In 2018, he joined the Truth Commission in Colombia, a crucial ...
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A Reconsideration of Fiscal Policy in the Era of Low Interest Rates - Jason Furman and Lawrence Summers
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 ...
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Rethinking Exchange Rate Regimes - Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff
September 21, 2021, Book Chapter: "This paper employs an updated algorithm and database for classifying exchange rate and anchor currency choice, to explore the evolution of the global exchange rate ...
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Stock Market Wealth and the Real Economy: A Local Labor Market Approach - Gabriel Chodorow-Reich
April 2021, Paper: "We provide evidence of the stock market wealth effect on consumption by using a local labor market analysis and regional heterogeneity in stock market wealth. An increase in local ...
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The Stock Market Valuation of Human Capital Creation - Ethan Rouen
September 21, 2021, Paper: "We develop a measure of firm-year-specific human capital investment from pub licly disclosed personnel expenses (PE) and examine the stock market valuation of this ...
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Structure, Interdependence, and Evolution of Globalization in Global Value Chains
September 6, 2020, Paper: "Global value chains (GVCs) are the practical expressions and principal engines of today’s globalization. There is a burgeoning body of literature that takes a GVC ...
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The Surrogate Index: Combining Short-Term Proxies to Estimate Long-Term Treatment Effects More Rapidly and Precisely
November 2019, Paper, "A common challenge in estimating the long-term impacts of treatments (e.g., job training programs) is that the outcomes of interest (e.g., lifetime earnings) are observed with a ...
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How Did COVID-19 and Stabilization Policies Affect Spending and Employment? Raj Chetty & Nathaniel Hendren
June 17, 2020, Paper, "We build a publicly available platform that tracks economic activity at a granular level in real time using anonymized data from private companies. We report weekly statistics ...
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Income Volatility Increases Financial Impatience - Ashley Whillans
2020, Paper: "Using a multi-method approach, we investigate whether income volatility is associated with financial impatience—the preference to receive a small sum of money immediately over a larger ...
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How NFTs Create Value - Scott Duke Kominers
November 10, 2021, Opinion: "How much could a cluster of pixels possibly be worth? More pointedly, why is it worth anything at all? The explosion of NFTs and their accompanying marketplaces have left ...