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Inequality

Inequality

When Social Policy Saves Lives: Analyzing Trends in Mortality Inequality in the United States and France

Hannes Schwandt, Josselin Thuilliez, Janet Currie
Understanding how inequalities in health and inequalities in income are connected is key for policymaking. New research analyzing mortality trends in the United States...
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How US Voters React to Immigration in the Voting Booth May Depend on Both Immigrants’ and Native Residents’ Skill Levels

Anna Maria Mayda, Giovanni Peri, Walter Steingress
A new working paper has revealed two strikingly divergent correlations between increases in high-skilled and low-skilled immigration and change in Republican vote share since...
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Inequality

Gabriel Zucman: “Some People in Economics Feel That Talking About Inequality Is Not What Economists Should Be Doing"

Samantha Eyler-Driscoll
The rising scholar of taxation and inequality talks to ProMarket about the problems excessive economic power poses for open political systems, how states can...
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Inequality

Education Quality Has Less to Do with Adult Outcomes Than You Might Think

Jesse Rothstein
A new paper assesses the contributions of education and labor markets to differences across regional labor markets in the United States and finds that differences in access to...
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Inequality

Excessive Zoning Makes Us Poorer and More Unequal

Brink Lindsey, Steven M. Teles
We normally think of income inequality as a function of differences in class or socioeconomic status. But much more than generally realized, geographic differences...
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Inequality

Why Democracy Fails to Reduce Inequality: Blame the Brahmin Left

Asher Schechter
A new paper by Thomas Piketty finds that major parties on both sides of the political spectrum have been captured by elites and warns...
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Inequality

Baldwin on Globalization: “A Lot of the Narrative Is Based on the US as If It Were the Whole World”

Samantha Eyler-Driscoll
Richard Baldwin, professor of international trade at the Graduate Institute of Geneva and editor-in-chief of VoxEU.org, talks to ProMarket about the convergence between the...
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Inequality

“Globalization Has Contributed to Tearing Societies Apart”

Asher Schechter
In an interview with ProMarket, Harvard economist Dani Rodrik explained where globalization went wrong, how trade agreements serve rent-seeking by politically well-connected firms, and...
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Corporate Governance

Investing in Quality Early Childcare Is Good for Vulnerable Kids—and Good Economics, Too


Rafael Lalive, Christina Felfe
Early childcare can be a major contributor to eliminating inequality of opportunity and even lay the foundations for a more productive workforce in the...
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Inequality

Angus Deaton on the Under-Discussed Driver of Inequality in America: “It’s Easier for Rent-Seekers to Affect Policy Here Than In Much of Europe”

Asher Schechter
In an interview with ProMarket, Nobel Prize-winning economist Angus Deaton talks about the connection of rent-seeking and monopolization to rising inequality. In December, the United...
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Antitrust and Competition

The New Challenges of Assessing Big Tech’s Impact

Michael Gofman, Zhao Jin
Big Tech firms are facing the biggest wave of antitrust legislation in their history. Academic literature reveals the complexity of possible consequences...
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The Metaphysics of Regulatory Capture

Karthik Ramanna
Stiglerian capture and corrosive cultural capture, its left-leaning parallel, are ostensibly symbionts, two attempts at identifying impediments to keeping markets competitive by...
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Capitalisn't

The Aristocracy of Talent: Business Intelligence

Adrian Wooldridge
In the following excerpt from his new book, The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World, Adrian Wooldridge traces "how universities...
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Antitrust and Competition

Why Privacy Experts Need a Place at the Antitrust Table

Cristina Caffarra, Johnny Ryan
Antitrust enforcers have tended to stay narrowly “in their lane,” failing to engage with how data is collected and used by digital...
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Assessing George Stigler’s Economic Theory of Regulation

Cary Coglianese
Despite its flaws and limitations, Stigler’s seminal article on the theory of economic regulation remains an important piece of scholarship worthy of...
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“Old Chicago” and Freiburg: Why Ordoliberalism Was No “German Oddity”

Stefan Kolev, Ekkehard A. Köhler
Both the Chicago and Freiburg schools faced systemic fragility as the crucial property of societal orders. It was this fragility that served...
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Commentary

The Many Faces of Stigler’s Theory of Economic Regulation: Interest Group Politics Still Thrives—But Industry Often Comes Second

Richard Epstein
Stigler treats industry groups as the heavyweights in regulatory contests. But surprisingly often groups of farmers and workers knock them for a...
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