Politics and Media
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SIEPR's Goda joins Newsom's economic advisory council
Gopi Shah Goda is the newest member of the administration's Council of Economic Advisors
February 15, 2024
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The latest episode of 538Politics by abcnews features Senior Fellow Neale Mahoney. Listen here to learn about his research on consumer sentiment, inflation, and partisanship.
February 01, 2024
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7 economic trends to watch in 2024
Policymakers have their work cut out for them this election year.
January 05, 2024
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“Generally, antitrust laws take a dim view of agreements between competitors to divide up or not enter a market,” SIEPR's Greg Rosston told The New York Times.
September 06, 2023
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Another payoff from trading stocks: Reducing political polarization
An experiment by senior fellow Saumitra Jha and his collaborators shows that investing — even when unprofitable — can be a lesson in building trust.
August 31, 2023
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The mythical tie between immigration and crime
Research by Stanford’s Ran Abramitzky and co-authors uncovers the most extensive evidence to date that immigrants are less likely to be imprisoned than U.S.-born individuals.
July 21, 2023
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Surprising insights from a global study on perceptions of gender norms
SIEPR’s Alessandra Voena and her co-authors find a rift between what people believe and what they think others believe about certain policies meant to empower women.
May 17, 2023
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Algorithms targeted filers who collected anti-poverty credits and did not report business income, shows research by SIEPR's Daniel Ho. Learn more via The Washington Post.
May 16, 2023
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This month marks the 30th anniversary of The Taylor Rule, named for its founder, Senior Fellow John Taylor. Catch his recent interview on Bloomberg TV:
May 12, 2023
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The new surge at the U.S.-Mexico border highlights a broader reality about immigration policy, reports The New York Times. Research by SIEPR's Ran Abramitzky is cited.
May 08, 2023
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“Even if interest rates went to 2.5% and miraculously inflation went down, this issue still lingers,” SIEPR's Amit Seru says. Read more via Bloomberg:
May 03, 2023
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US inflation figures are the worst they have been since the early 1980s. SIEPR's Michael Boskin breaks down the economic warfront facing the nation in a recent Guardian op-ed.
April 28, 2023
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SIEPR’s Anat Admati joins Bloomberg TV to to discuss her concerns surrounding the banking system and what regulators need to do to fix it. "It's always an issue of leverage."
April 04, 2023
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Condoleezza Rice: “Globalization is a fact, not a policy”
The onetime top advisor to George W. Bush opened the Economic Summit with her candid perspective on current geopolitics and the world economy.
March 09, 2023
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Behind the breakdown in US-China relations
At the 2023 Economic Summit, experts on U.S.-China relations discussed how the two countries got to this point and where they’re headed next.
March 09, 2023
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Q&A: Voters “punished” candidates who pushed election fraud claims in 2022
Senior Fellow Andrew Hall discusses new research that finds a small group of voters penalized election-denying candidates in 2022 — and could sway 2024 election results.
February 20, 2023
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Police Facebook posts disproportionately highlight crimes involving Black suspects, study finds
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.
November 14, 2022
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Quotes Erik Brynjolfsson, senior fellow at and at Human Centered AI arguing Twitter should reward account verification, not tax it.
November 11, 2022
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A New York Times opinion piece quotes Vasiliki Fouka, center fellow at SIEPR, on how “in general, conflict among groups is more likely to emerge when resources are scarce.”
October 19, 2022
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How partisanship crept into a program to boost investment in low-income areas
Research by Faculty Fellow Rebecca Lester reveals how political bias influenced the federal Opportunity Zone program rollout, underscoring concerns of fiscal misallocations.
June 20, 2022