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The Equitable Economy

Income Inequality

How US Voters React to Immigration in the Voting Booth May Depend on Both Immigrants’ and Native Residents’ Skill Levels

Anna Maria Mayda
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...
Income 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...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

Depositors Disciplining Banks: The Impact of Scandals

Mikael Homanen
Can depositor activism make a real difference? New research set to be presented at the upcoming Stigler Center Political Economy of Finance conference examines the Dakota...
Income 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...
Income Inequality

Excessive Zoning Makes Us Poorer and More Unequal

Brink Lindsey
We normally think of income inequality as a function of differences in class or socioeconomic status. But much more than generally realized, geographic differences...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

Do Firms Use Capital and Labor Efficiently? Evidence and Implications of Resource Misallocation

Simone Lenzu
Economists have for a decade or so theorized that moving productive inputs like labor and capital into the firms that make the best use...
Income 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...
Income 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...
Income 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...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

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


Rafael Lalive
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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