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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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Coronavirus

Female Academics Are Disproportionately Affected By Covid-19 Disruptions In Childcare

Tatyana Deryugina, Olga Shurchkov, Jenna Stearns
A new paper finds that academics who are parents to young children, and especially mothers, have lost a significant amount of research...
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The Unequal Toll of Covid-19

Neha Deopa, Piergiuseppe Fortunato
A pandemic is by definition universal but while it is true that the Covid-19 outbreak has affected everyone, it has not done...
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One Year Into the Pandemic: Who Maintains Social Distancing and Who Doesn’t

Tim Besley, Sacha Dray
A new study measures factors associated with the adoption of social distancing across America and finds that widespread adoption of social distancing...
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Lack of Trust in Doctors Undermines Covid-19 Vaccination Strategy

Fabio da Silva Soares
Recent data from the Financial Trust Index (FTI) reveals that Americans are not as willing to be vaccinated as the government expects....
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Why Is All Covid-19 News Bad News?

Bruce Sacerdote, Ranjan Sehgal, Molly Cook
A new paper finds that media coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic, including vaccine development, tends to be more negative in the US...
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Coronavirus

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

Marianne Bertrand, Guglielmo Briscese, Maddalena Grignani, Salma Nassar
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, TikTok, and Milton Friedman: ProMarket’s Top Stories of 2020

ProMarket writers
As 2020 draws to a close, we look back at ProMarket’s most-read and most-widely shared stories of the past year.
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Coronavirus

Covid-19 Surges Drive Up Demand – and Pay – For Nurses Willing To Travel

Joshua Gottlieb
Covid-19 surges have led to spikes in demand for short-term nurses across the United States. A new paper finds nurses travel longer distances, and...
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Coronavirus

Angus Deaton: “There’s Something Clearly Wrong With Our Corporate System, in Which Pharmaceutical Companies Are Allowed to Kill People for Money”

Asher Schechter
In an interview with ProMarket, Nobel Prize-winning economist Angus Deaton outlined what he believes the incoming Biden administration should do: introduce price...
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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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