There's no question the domestic workforce is aging. According to recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median age of the U.S. labor force was 42 years in 2016, up from 38 in 1996, and it's projected to keep ...
Economics & Business
Jan 10, 2019
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Suppose you were building a cartel—a group of business interests who coordinate to fix high prices that consumers must pay. How would you design it? Received economic wisdom says transparency among cartel members is crucial: ...
Economics & Business
Dec 19, 2018
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Too often in economics, where you publish can be more important than what you publish.
Economics & Business
Oct 2, 2018
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Attending universal childcare from age three significantly improves the school readiness of children from immigrant and disadvantaged family backgrounds, a new UCL study has found.
Social Sciences
Jun 6, 2018
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Even for poor villagers in rural Indonesia, information is power.
Economics & Business
May 9, 2018
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Low-achieving, non-white and poor students stand to gain the most academically from attending charter schools but are less likely to seek charter school enrollment than higher-achieving, more advantaged students who generally ...
Social Sciences
Apr 4, 2018
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New research has revealed how people's intelligence, rather than their personality traits, leads to success.
Social Sciences
Mar 20, 2018
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Warming temperatures will take a heavy toll on agricultural productivity, according to climate scientists. How will society adjust? One possibility might be increased trade: If one country suffers a decline in, say, wheat ...
Environment
Nov 20, 2015
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Political parties find that their fortunes improve when they put more women on the ballot, according to a study co-authored by an MIT economist.
Social Sciences
Apr 6, 2015
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In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, an "open borders" United States absorbed millions of European immigrants in one of the largest mass migrations ever. New research by Stanford economist Ran Abramitzky challenges ...
Social Sciences
Aug 8, 2014
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