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Make Work Fair: Introduction and the Myths We Need to Debunk
In our first seminar of the Spring semester, Bohnet and Chilazi will give an overview of their book and the theme of this ...
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Diversity Incentives Can Increase Women's Aspirations to Lead
This seminar is based on ideas presented in the upcoming book "Make Work Fair" by Iris Bohnet and Siri Chilazi.
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How to Increase Taxes on the Rich - N. Gregory Mankiw
February 2021, Book Chapter: "I bring up this fact because we live in a time when inequality is high, when demonizing the rich is popular in some political circles, and when various policies are being ...
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Maxims for Thinking Analytically: The Wisdom of Legendary Harvard Professor Richard Zeckhauser
This book will help you think more analytically. Doing so will enable you to better understand the world around you, to make smarter decisions, and to ultimately live a more fulfilling life. It draws ...
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The Double-Edged Sword of Low Interest Rates - N. Gregory Mankiw
December 6, 2020, Opinion: "In the evolution of the U.S. economy over the past four decades, one fact stands out as especially puzzling: the large and fairly steady decline in interest rates. Consider ...
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US unemployment remains worse than it seems as millions still out of the labor force - Jason Furman & WIllie Powell
March 5, 2021, Opinion: "The labor market improved in February 2021 as employers added 379,000 jobs, leaving the economy at 11.9 million jobs below its pre-pandemic trend. At the same time the ...
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Estimating the Distributional Implications of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act - Aparna Mathur
2021, Paper: "This paper provides a distributional analysis of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), with implications for American households from changes to the individual income and corporate income ...
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Economic Determinants of Public Support for European Integration, 1995-2018
2020, Paper, "The death of economic factors as a determinant of attitudes toward European integration has been exaggerated. Examining 23 years of responses to the Eurobarometer (19952018), we find ...
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The Basic Economics of Internet Infrastructure
2020, Book Chapter, "This internet barely existed in a commercial sense 25 years ago. In the mid1990s, when the data packets travelled to users over dial-up, the main internet traffic consisted of ...
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Tarun Khanna on the jobs of the future, how entrepreneurs can build trust, and institutional voids
March 2019. GrowthPolicy’s Devjani Roy interviewed Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School and Director of the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute at Harvard ...
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Stock Price Reactions to ESG News: The Role of ESG Ratings and Disagreement - George Serafeim
May 2020, Paper: "We investigate whether ESG ratings predict future ESG news and the associated market reactions. We find that the consensus rating predicts future news, but its predictive ability ...
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High Frequency Data and a Weekly Economic Index during the Pandemic - James Stock
December 2020, Paper: "This paper describes a weekly economic index (WEI) developed to track the rapid economic developments associated with the onset of and policy response to the novel coronavirus ...