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Maddalena Grignani

Maddalena Grignani is a Research Professional at the Rustandy Center, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Coronavirus

Covid-19 Aggravates Existing Income, Gender, and Race Inequalities, and Further Increases Political Divisions

Seventy percent of Americans know someone who tested positive; one in five know someone who died from coronavirus, survey shows.
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Coronavirus

Covid-19 Is Reducing Americans’ Confidence Across Institutions

Latest US household survey findings reveal that the Covid-19 crisis caused a sharp reduction in Americans’ confidence in institutions—whether or not they...
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Coronavirus

How Personal Experiences With Covid-19 Are Changing Americans’ Behaviors and Political Views

While strong divisions persist across party lines, personal experiences with Covid-19, such as loss of income, may affect views and preferences among...
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Coronavirus

When and How the US Should Reopen Is a Matter of Politics, Trust in Institutions and Media, Survey Says

A new survey from the Rustandy Center and the Poverty Lab at the University of Chicago finds that political party affiliation and...
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Coronavirus

How Are Americans Coping With the Covid-19 Crisis? 7 Key Findings From a Household Survey

New research from the Rustandy Center and the Poverty Lab at the University of Chicago finds that lower-income Americans, especially women,...
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Inequality

Most Americans Consider Themselves Middle-Class. But Are They?

Jeffrey Wenger, Melanie Zaber
There are different ways of determining who should be considered middle-class. But there is one thing they have in common: all reveal...
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Antitrust and Competition

Barriers to Entry as Another Source of Top Income Inequality

Philippe Aghion, Céline Antonin, Simon Bunel
A new book, The Power of Creative Destruction, explores how lobbying contributes to the increase in the top 1 percent’s share of...
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Media

ProMarket Reader Survey: We Want Your Feedback

ProMarket writers
As ProMarket enters its sixth year of operation, we would like to understand what you, our readers, like about it and what...
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Corporate Governance

What Stakeholder Capitalism Can Learn From Jensen and Meckling

Alex Edmans
Jensen and Meckling’s 1976 article is an academic classic, but heavily criticized by stakeholder capitalists for arguing that corporate structures should be...
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Commentary

How Twitter Weakened India’s Information Ecosystem

Prateek Raj
India’s Covid-19 crisis is a reminder that Indian democracy is also in a crisis, partly due to an information ecosystem where facts...
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Antitrust and Competition

Eliminating Baseball’s Antitrust Exemption Won’t End the Georgia Political Boycott

Herbert Hovenkamp
There are good arguments for getting rid of baseball's long-standing exemption from antitrust laws, but the reason cited by Republican Senators angry...
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Antitrust and Competition

Europe Lacks a Vision for How Apple’s App Store Fees Should Work

Randy Picker
The European Commission believes that Apple is violating European competition laws and raising prices for consumers in how it operates its App...
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