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Understanding Illiberal Playbooks: Preparing for Attacks on LGBTQI+ Rights
Join us for a crucial discussion on the modern strategies used by illiberal governments to restrict LGBTQI+ rights and ...
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Covering tariffs: What journalists need to know
Join The Journalist’s Resource and Econofact for an hourlong, on-the-record webinar about the future of tariffs in 2025, days ...
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From insight to impact: Dean Jeremy Weinstein wants the Kennedy School to embrace and solve complex public problems
Weinstein’s views on the role HKS should play in the world were forged by his family history, his wide-ranging scholarship, and his real-world experiences in government.
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Minimum Wages and the Rise of Firms’ Robot Adoption in China - Richard Freeman
2020, Paper: "In this study, we analyze the impacts of minimum wages on firms’ robot adoption using novel panel data related to robots imported by firms in China from 2001 to 2012, a period when most ...
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The Surrogate Index: Combining Short-Term Proxies to Estimate Long-Term Treatment Effects More Rapidly and Precisely
November 2019, Paper, "A common challenge in estimating the long-term impacts of treatments (e.g., job training programs) is that the outcomes of interest (e.g., lifetime earnings) are observed with a ...
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Why Firms Offer Paid Parental Leave: An Exploratory Study
January 2020, Paper, "Why do competitive firms in the US provide paid parental leave (PPL)? Which firms do and to what extent? We use several firm- and individual-level data sets to answer these ...
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Why Does Globalization Fuel Populism? Economics, Culture, and the Rise of Right-wing Populism - Dani Rodrik
July 2020, Paper, "There is compelling evidence that globalization shocks, often working through culture and identity, have played an important role in driving up support for populist movements, ...
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Inflation ahead? Even a top economist says it’s complicated - Jason Furman
June 21, 2021, Interview: "Two months of sharply rising prices have raised concerns that record-high government financial aid and the Federal Reserve’s ultra-low interest rate policies — when the ...
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Why is Dollar Debt Cheaper? Evidence from Peru
2020, Paper, "In emerging markets, a significant share of corporate loans are denominated in dollars. Using novel data that enables us to see currency and the cost of credit, in addition to several ...
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The Rise of the Investor State: State Capital in the Chinese Economy - Meg Rithmire
2020, Paper, " The nature and extent of the role of the Chinese state in the economy is fundamental to many empirical and theoretical debates about that country’s political economy. We document and ...
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Beyond Shareholder Value Maximization: Accounting for Financial/Social Tradeoffs in Dual-Purpose Companies - Julie Battilana
October 30, 2020, Paper: "A growing number of companies choose to pursue financial and social goals simultaneously. These dual-purpose companies face inherent tradeoffs as they are caught between the ...
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Deep Dive: Japan's Economy- The Recovery Trajectory - Paul Sheard
July 1, 2021, Video: "Paul Sheard: Research Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School Naoyuki Yoshino: Professor Emeritus (Economics) of Keio University, Tokyo Jesper Koll: Expert Director, Monex Group and the ...