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December 23, 2025
Economists addressed issues related to policing, unemployment benefits, bank bailouts, and more.
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Navigating the college choice process
December 16, 2025
Intensive advising can substantially increase the likelihood of degree attainment for low-income students.
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Understanding liquidity traps
December 10, 2025
Lessons from Roosevelt's monetary policy changes and the end of the Great Depression.
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Targeted supply-side enforcement in the controlled substance market
December 3, 2025
Adam Soliman discusses the effects of crackdowns on prescription opioids.
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The effects of unemployment benefit duration
November 26, 2025
What happened to the US labor market when the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act expired after the Great Recession?
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Market segmentation and housing prices
November 20, 2025
Did relaxed credit standards drive the housing boom that led to the Great Recession?
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Tariffs and local labor markets
November 13, 2025
The impact of the 2002 Bush steel tariffs on jobs in steel-intensive industries.
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Technological spillovers
November 5, 2025
Shawn Kantor and Alexander Whalley discuss the long-term effects of public R&D investment made during the Cold War–era space race.
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