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Employees have no legal recourse against colleagues who they feel aren’t doing enough—or going overboard—to prevent the spread of COVID-19, said Senior Fellow Alison Morantz.
July 11, 2020
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Judith Goldstein described Prof Lucius Barker "cared about the law and about minority interest in the law way before Black Lives Matter,” adding, “In that way he was pathbreaking."
July 11, 2020
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A 2016 paper by economists “suggests that black-owned businesses have more difficulty in accessing formal credit channels…[...]
July 07, 2020
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Andrew Hall found that universal voting by mail had no effect on partisan outcomes, did not appear to give an advantage to any particular racial, economic or age group [...]
July 07, 2020
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According to a new analysis by Colleen Honigsberg, more than 4,000 lending institutions are in line to split between $14.3 billion to $24.6 billion in processing fees for PPP loans
July 07, 2020
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From February through April of this year, a staggering 40% of Black-owned businesses owners said they were not working, according to an analysis from Visiting Professor Rob Fairlie
July 07, 2020
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Senior Fellow Mark Cullen, founding director of the Center for Population Health Sciences at comments on airborne transmission of COVID-19.
July 07, 2020
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A report by David Grusky found that from 2008 and 2016, the mortality rates of people between the ages of 25 and 34 increased 20%, largely because of suicides and drug overdoses.
July 06, 2020
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Amid the public health crisis, the number of working black business owners is down more than 40%, according to recent research by SIEPR.
July 04, 2020
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“You can’t run an economy with so many people aged 30 to 45 missing...You just have younger and older workers and none of the middle-aged people working,” said Nicholas Bloom.
July 03, 2020
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"The only way to close the [achievement] gap is to racially integrate schools," says Senior Fellow Sean Reardon, who led a recent study on modern segregation.
July 03, 2020
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“I’m a firm believer in post-Covid half time in the office," says Senior Fellow Nicholas Bloom.
July 02, 2020
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"There's just a lot of things that say [poverty in China] is going to be a persistent problem," said Scott Rozelle, co-director of Stanford's Rural Education Action Program.
July 02, 2020
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Senior Fellow Nicholas Bloom found that employees who worked from home were more productive, needed fewer sick days, and took less time off. "9-to-5 actually became 9-to-5."
June 26, 2020
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According to Senior Fellow Sean Reardon and his colleagues, the average Black family earning $100,000 a year lives in a neighborhood with an average annual income of $54,000.
June 24, 2020
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A 2014 experiment run by Nick Bloom showed that telecommuting increased productivity by 13%—employees worked more minutes per shift & took more calls while working from home.
June 23, 2020
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Co-sponsored by and the Stanford Economics Association, the COVID-19 Policy Hackathon drew more than 800 participants from 78 countries.
June 22, 2020
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Research by Andrew Hall on vote-by-mail programs found that absentee balloting didn’t increase one party’s overall turnout or vote share more than the other’s between 1996 and 2018
June 22, 2020
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“I fear that the prominence of the city, and particularly city centers, will decline,” said Senior Fellow Nicholas Bloom.
June 19, 2020
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Senior Fellow Nicholas Bloom discusses unemployment in California.
June 18, 2020