Research Highlights Article

What's in a name?

June 19, 2017

Companies named for their founders do better. This video explains why more firms don't bear their owners’ names

Research Highlights Article

Why do mothers earn less?

June 14, 2017

An interview with Erik Plug about the "motherhood penalty" and what it means for working moms

Announcement

Submissions open for the 2017 TIAA Paul A. Samuelson Award

June 13, 2017

The TIAA Institute invites you to submit an entry for the 2017 TIAA PAUL A. SAMUELSON AWARD

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The resource curse in action

June 12, 2017

Violence in mineral-rich regions of Africa rose along with commodity prices

Research Highlights Article

How the Great Fire of 1872 helped Boston grow

June 9, 2017

The upside of an urban disaster

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Does an older population crimp economic growth?

June 7, 2017

An aging workforce doesn't necessarily mean that a country's economic growth will slow

Research Highlights Article

You have the right to an attorney

June 6, 2017

Expanding access to legal counsel would benefit criminal suspects, but what about everybody else?

Research Highlights Article

Staying beneath the death ceiling

May 31, 2017

An interview with Raymond Fisman

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Separate and more equal?

May 24, 2017

Certain tax systems can discourage married women from working more.

Call For Papers

CReAM/RWI Workshop on the Economics of Migration

May 23, 2017

Workshop to be held on September 29-30, 2017