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The Olympics is a losing investment
July 14, 2017
Bloomberg Businessweek cited a paper from the Journal of Economic Perspectives in a column about why cities no longer want to host the Olympics.
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An uphill climb for electric cars
July 12, 2017
The Wall Street Journal cites a JEP paper in a column about the likelihood of electric cars replacing gas-powered vehicles.
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The persistence of the gender wage gap
June 26, 2017
The Gainesville Sun cited papers in the American Economic Review and the Journal of Economic Literature in a column about the gender wage gap.
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Mismeasuring inflation and GDP
May 16, 2017
Bloomberg features a paper in the Journal of Economic Perspectives that questions the accuracy of estimates of GDP and price growth.
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The frenzy of the job market at the AEA annual meeting
May 9, 2017
NPR's Planet Money followed one graduate student as he interviewed for jobs at the 2017 AEA annual meeting in Chicago.
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How insurers favor lower cost Medicare patients
May 8, 2017
The New York Times cited an article in the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy that showed how insurers design benefits to favor patients with conditions that are less costly to treat.
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How Germany became a global economic powerhouse
April 19, 2017
Bloomberg cites an article in the Journal of Economic Perspectives that examines how Germany's flexible labor contracts helped it thrive in difficult times.
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The historic failure of the soda tax
April 10, 2017
The Washington Post cited a paper published 98 years ago in The American Economic Review about the Revenue Act of 1918.
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