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Income Inequality

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

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

Lobbying for Globalization: How the Winners Dominate the Politics of Trade Agreements

Michael Blanga-Gubbay
Lobbying on free trade agreements has been dominated by a few very large firms, which experience large gains as a result of the entry...
Income Inequality

What the US Can Learn From Denmark About Inequality and Social Mobility

James J. Heckman
Denmark has many generous social policies that American progressives seek to emulate. Yet Denmark also has substantial inequality of child outcomes across social and...
Covid-19

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

Tatyana Deryugina
A new paper finds that academics who are parents to young children, and especially mothers, have lost a significant amount of research time that...
Covid-19

The Unequal Toll of Covid-19

Neha Deopa
A pandemic is by definition universal but while it is true that the Covid-19 outbreak has affected everyone, it has not done so equally....
Antitrust and Competition

Competition for Extortion: Evidence from 50,000 Extortion Payments in El Salvador

Zach Y. Brown
A new paper explores how truce deals between gangs are equivalent to collusion, and result in higher extortion prices that have negative consequences for...
Antitrust and Competition

Green Antitrust: Why Would Restricting Competition Induce Sustainability Efforts?

Maarten Pieter Schinkel
While “green” antitrust is gaining momentum, its key premise—that restricting competition would incentivize companies to jointly take more sustainability initiatives—finds little or no ground...
Commentary

Why We Need to Stop Relying On Patents to Measure Innovation

Gary N. Smith
Patent databases may be a smoke screen that hides the true issues, problems, and dynamics of innovation behind the illusion that innovation is booming—and...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

Public’s Perception of Large Corporations Has Direct Impact on the Public Support of Corporate Bailouts

Emanuele Colonnelli
A new Stigler Center working paper finds that the likelihood of someone signing an online petition or contacting their US senators to support corporate...
News

“Drive and Wave”: In Response to 1998 Police Reform, LAPD Officers Disengaged from Policing

Jana Kasperkevic
A new paper documents how LAPD officers responded to two police reforms—one in 1998 and one in late 2002. It finds that when public...
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