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Great to see this new research by @BrendanDMoore — a SIEPR graduate fellowship recipient who is studying the effects of unemployment insurance.
In new work with @casey_mcquillan we find unemployment benefit receipt for low-income workers improves subsequent job quality without meaningfully delaying re-employment. Casey’s thread has more exciting results!
Grateful to @morganemrichard, 2024-25 SIEPR postdoc, for her evidence into how #WFH #RemoteWork drive up #HousingMarket prices, increasing inequality over time.
#WFH changed where we live, but what did it do to house prices? @morganemrichard @SIEPR @Stanford tells @timsvengali how remote work shaped London’s #HousingMarket, and who’s left behind. 🎧 Listen: cepr.org/multimedia/eff… Recorded live at the @PSEinfo -CEPR Policy Forum 2025
Fascinating read from @Harpers on how the market for #treasuries, “on which the entire global financial system rests, has been cracking for years. @mdc includes insights from @HannoLustig, scholar at SIEPR and @StanfordGSB.
from "Debt Reckoning Has the Treasury market started to crack? " harpers.org/archive/2025/0…
We're still not investing enough to find treatments for cancer, Alzheimer's disease, mental health and other diseases. SIEPR Senior Fellow and @PatentScholar Lisa Ouellette and others have ideas on what to do about that.
Prof. @PatentScholar Lisa Larimore Ouellette was part of a committee of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine that authored this consensus study report. nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/29157/…
Spoke with @arsheffey at @BusinessInsider about how the cancellation of "click to cancel" will waste people's time, increase switching costs, and make markets less competitive.
Watch @Susan_Athey’s talk on the implications of AI on the organisation of industry and work at #G20SouthAfrica youtube.com/watch?v=okDGsZ…
Debt collectors win, medical debt holders lose, as SIEPR Director @nealemahoney explains.
Last Friday, a judge struck down a CFPB rule that would've removed medical debt from credit reports The decision will reduce credit access while giving debt collectors more leverage It comes exactly a week after Trump signed a law that will kick 16 million off health insurance…
.@FT highlights important work by SIEPR's @m_maggiori and his @GCAProject team on #geoeconomics and the U.S.-China rivalry.
From the FT Weekend Essay by Gillian Tett “‘A group of economists at Stanford and Columbia have set up the so-called Global Capital Allocation Project (GCAP) Allocation Project to conduct research that “leverages recent advances in large language models to identify the areas of…
Breaking up is hard to do, as the 1960s song goes. New research from SIEPR Senior Fellow @HuntAllcott shows just how difficult that might be for users of Facebook and Instagram should parent company @Meta lose its antitrust battle with @FTC and be forced to separate the social…