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WEBR. Glenn Hubbard, Angelo Melino, and John Pepper were elected to the NBER Board of Directors at the Board’s September 23 meeting. Hubbard will represent Columbia University. He is the Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics and the Director of the Jerome A. Chazen Institute for Global Business at the Columbia Business …
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Unpacking the Causes of Pandemic-Era Inflation in the US
WEBThe annual inflation rate, as measured by the Consumer Price Index, was 1.7 percent in February 2021 but rose to more than 5 percent in June 2021. It continued rising for another year, peaking at about 9 percent in June 2022. The rise in the inflation rate has been attributed to many factors. The US response to the COVID-19 pandemic included a ...
How the US-China Trade War Affected the Rest of the World
WEBU pendin g a decades-long effort to reduce global trade barriers, China and the United States began mutually escalating tariffs on $450 billion in trade flows in 2018 and 2019. These tariff increases reduced trade between the US and China, but little is known about how trade was affected in the rest of the world. In The US-China Trade War and Global …
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WEBOn July 1, the Program on Children was renamed the Program on Children and Families. This change, which better captures the range of research carried out by its 171 affiliates, in part marks a return to the program’s roots. In 1993, the late Alan Krueger launched an NBER project on the Economics of Families and Children.
WEBexperienced an average decrease of 11.5 hours of work per week and a 21% decrease in weekly earnings, arnings for 52% of the sample, which again re ects s. variation in the e ects of COVID-19 across students. In terms of labor market expectations, on average, students foresee a 13 percentage points decrease in.
The New Economics of Industrial Policy | NBER
WEBMentioned in the News. Time to revisit economic rationale for industrial policy and subsidies. November 8, 2023. Source: China Daily. Read the research here. Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public ...
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Why do Death Rates Decline? - NBER
WEBBetween 1940 and 1960, infectious diseases as a cause of death continued to decline. But more of this decline was attributable to medical factors, such as the use of penicillin, sulfa drugs (discovered in 1935), and other antibiotics. These help the elderly as well as the young, thereby reducing mortality across the age spectrum.
Evaluating Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy | NBER
WEBAug 1, 2023 · Evaluating Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy. DATE: August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2026. The last couple of years have seen important changes in the design of macroeconomic stabilization policy: so-called "stimulus checks" have become an important part of the fiscal policy toolkit, and the Federal Reserve has moved to a new monetary …