The Evolution of Work from Home

[Symposium: After the Pandemic]

By José María Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, and Steven J. Davis

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2023

Full days worked at home account for 28 percent of paid workdays among Americans 20–64 years old, as of mid-2023. That's about four times the 2019 rate and ten times the rate in the mid-1990s. We first explain why the big shift to work from home has end...

Early Career Paths of Economists inside and outside of Academia

[Symposium: Economics Career Paths]

By Lucia Foster, Erika McEntarfer, and Danielle H. Sandler

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2023

Economics job candidates face considerable professional and financial uncertainties when deciding between academic and nonacademic career paths. Using novel panel data, we provide a broad picture of PhD economists' early career mobility and earnings growt...

Retrospectives: Margaret Reid, Chicago, and Permanent Income

By Evelyn L. Forget

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2023

Margaret Gilpin Reid (1896–1990) began her career as a home economist and, with Dorothy Brady, Milton and Rose Friedman, played a central role in the development of the permanent income hypothesis at Chicago. Reid was the first woman to be elected Fello...

Recommendations for Further Reading

By Timothy Taylor

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2023

Why Did the Best Prepared Country in the World Fare So Poorly during COVID?

[Symposium: After the Pandemic]

By Jennifer B. Nuzzo and Jorge R. Ledesma

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2023

Though all countries struggled to respond to COVID-19, the United States' poor performance during the pandemic was unexpected. Despite having more pandemic preparedness capacities than other countries, the United States experienced more than one million...

COVID-19, School Closures, and Outcomes

[Symposium: After the Pandemic]

By Rebecca Jack and Emily Oster

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2023

This article discusses the question of data and our perspective on the importance of public, accessible, and contemporaneous data in the face of public crisis. Then, we present data on the extent of school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic, both globa...

Changes in the Distribution of Black and White Wealth since the US Civil War

[Symposium: Wealth]

By Ellora Derenoncourt, Chi Hyun Kim, Moritz Kuhn, and Moritz Schularick

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2023

The difference in the average wealth of Black and white Americans narrowed in the first century after the Civil War, but remained large and even widened again after 1980. Given high levels of wealth concentration both historically and today, dynamics at t...

Why Do Retired Households Draw Down Their Wealth So Slowly?

[Symposium: Wealth]

By Eric French, John Bailey Jones, and Rory McGee

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2023

Retired households, especially those with high lifetime income, decumulate their wealth very slowly, and many die leaving large estates. The three leading explanations for the "retirement savings puzzle" are the desire to insure against uncertain lifespan...

Refugees, policymaking, and decarceration

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October 13, 2023

Reading recommendations from Timothy Taylor, managing editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives"

Tenure-Track Position in Finance

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Assistant Professor of Economics, Tenure Track

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Assistant Professor of Economics, Tenure Track

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Trading rights for health security during the pandemic

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Did the willingness to sacrifice civil liberties vary according to income?

Structural Reforms and Economic Performance: The Experience of Advanced Economies

By Nauro F. Campos, Paul De Grauwe, and Yuemei Ji

Journal of Economic Literature

This paper provides a comprehensive assessment of the theoretical and empirical literature on structural reforms in advanced economies. Structural reforms matter because they entail profound and systematic changes that affect economic welfare, productivit...

Assistant or Associate Professor of Economics

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Lecturer

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The School to Prison Pipeline: Long-Run Impacts of School Suspensions on Adult Crime

By Andrew Bacher-Hicks, Stephen B. Billings, and David J. Deming

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

Schools must balance student behavior management with the potential negatives of strict discipline. These policies can deter misbehavior but may stigmatize students and expose them to the criminal justice system early. This paper assesses the impact of ...

Downward Revision of Investment Decisions after Corporate Tax Hikes

By Sebastian Link, Manuel Menkhoff, Andreas Peichl, and Paul Schüle

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

This paper estimates the causal effect of corporate tax hikes on firm investment based on more than 1,400 local tax changes. By observing planned and realized investment volumes in a representative sample of German manufacturing firms, we can study how ...

Call for Papers: Orlando Annual Business Research Conference (OABRC) 2024

[News]

November 13, 2023

The submission deadline is April 8, 2024.

Online Seminars

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