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Social Security’s clock is ticking. At the ¹ÏÌïºÚÁÏSpring Policy Forum, top experts examined the program’s teetering finances and what happens next.

SIEPR’s Adrien Auclert shows how the surge in savings by US households during the pandemic is exacerbating wealth inequality — and likely complicating efforts to tame inflation.

¹ÏÌïºÚÁÏSenior Fellow Thomas S. Dee says the findings point to a need to refocus academic recovery efforts on younger students.

As tech companies struggle to diversify their workforces, Stanford’s Susan Athey and Emil Palikot have designed an online program to accelerate the hiring of women and minorities.

A Stanford collaboration with the Department of the Treasury yields the first direct evidence of differences in audit rates by race.

¹ÏÌïºÚÁÏFaculty Fellow Petra Persson is one of 14 Stanford faculty to receive a NSF CAREER Award in 2022.

As public control of US hospitals has declined dramatically, SIEPR’s Mark Duggan shows how privatization improves profitability but reduces access for the most vulnerable patients.

No crystal balls. No reading tea leaves. Just a research-based look ahead to some undoubtedly huge economic issues.

SIEPR’s Maria Polyakova conducts a detailed analysis of the first-year impact of the COVID-19 pandemic among people based on their race and ethnicity, employment and education.

Research by SIEPR’s Petra Persson and Maya Rossin-Slater on health inequality finds wealthy Black mothers and infants fare worse than the poorest white mothers and infants.

In the first real-world test of a tool pioneered at Stanford to better evaluate anti-poverty policies, a new study shows the economic benefits of expanding electricity access.

As social media has risen as a news source, SIEPR’s Julian Nyarko examines law enforcement Facebook posts and finds Black suspects are overrepresented relative to arrest rates.

The ¹ÏÌïºÚÁÏPolicy Forum on taxation convened top policymakers, business leaders, and academics for an in-depth discussion on how to make the system more equitable and efficient.