George Mason University economist on credentialism, the new math of causation, and the lasting economic influence of youthful experiences

Yale University economist on developing countries, measuring economies by satellite, and the learning crisis

Harvard University economist on urbanization, the future of small towns, and "Yes In My Back Yard"

University of Texas at Austin economist on wage growth, labor's share of income, and the gender unemployment gap

The Profession

A recent Richmond Fed conference covered housing, Social Security claiming, savings and labor supply related to older households.

Stanford University economist on human networks, the friendship paradox, and the information economics of protest movements

UC San Diego economics professor on fiscal stimulus, technological lull, and the rug-rat race

University of Toronto economist on managing pandemics, allocating vaccines, and low-cost prediction with artificial intelligence

Research indicates that one promising strategy for rural development is maintaining and improving the quality of an area's public schools.

MIT economist on charter schools, the elite illusion, and the "Stones Age" of econometrics

Book Review

Automated telephone switching eventually displaced the women at the switchboards. But they kept their jobs for decades after the technology arrived

Harvard University economist on the world monetary system, the demand for safe assets, and measuring productivity growth

UC Berkeley economist on agglomeration economies, the "Great Divergence" among cities, and how housing rules affect economic growth

Microsoft's former chief economist on conducting research at tech companies, entrepreneurship within large firms, and the effects of artificial intelligence on markets

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Jargon Alert

Modeling the U.S. economy on computers has come a long way since the 1950s. It's still a work in progress

Jargon Alert

Richmond Fed economist Zhu Wang asks why so many ATM networks disappeared after the mid-1980s

When children enter a parent's profession, they probably aren't doing it blindly — they may have smart economic reasons. What's behind this footstep-following phenomenon?

French economist on the economics of online platforms, the future of jobs, and life after the Nobel Prize

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Book Review

There are 1.8 million heavy truck and tractor-trailer drivers in the United States. Will self-driving trucks soon mean the end of many of those jobs?

Book Review

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Harvard University economist on venture capital, open-source software, and doing economic research in a business school

Research Spotlight

Book Review

When tech companies need to understand marketplaces, and tens of millions of dollars are at stake, some of them are turning to a new kind of researcher

MIT economist on the home mortgage interest deduction, changes in retirement finance, and the university's rise in the economics profession

Policy Update

Duke University economist on the future of bitcoin, the overconfidence of CEOs, and index funds

Book Review

Research Spotlight

Economists ponder whether demographic change will reduce the potency of the Fed's interest rate moves

Book Review

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