October 12, 2020, Paper; "The SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) pandemic is the greatest threat to prosperity and well-being the US has encountered since the Great ...

March 5, 2021, Opinion: "The labor market improved in February 2021 as employers added 379,000 jobs, leaving the economy at 11.9 million jobs below its pre-pandemic trend. At the same time the ...

December 6, 2020, Opinion: "In the evolution of the U.S. economy over the past four decades, one fact stands out as especially puzzling: the large and fairly steady decline in interest rates. Consider ...

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 ...

May/June 2021, Opinion: "For decades, the promise of globalization has rested on a vision of a world in which goods, services, and capital would flow across borders as never before; whatever its other ...

2020, Paper: "Using a multi-method approach, we investigate whether income volatility is associated with financial impatience—the preference to receive a small sum of money immediately over a larger ...

February 2021, Book Chapter: "I bring up this fact because we live in a time when inequality is high, when demonizing the rich is popular in some political circles, and when various policies are being ...

July 2021, Paper: "Financial hardship is an established source of shame. This research explores whether shame is also a driver and exacerbator of financial hardship. Six experimental, archival, and ...

2020, Book Chapter, "This internet barely existed in a commercial sense 25 years ago. In the mid1990s, when the data packets travelled to users over dial-up, the main internet traffic consisted of ...

2021, Paper: "Our research shows that men and women differ in their use of communicative abstraction, with men using more abstract communication than women. Because people rely on communicative ...

August 13, 2020, Video: "(Translated) This webinar has the participation of Arminio Fraga, who dispenses presentations, and Dani Rodrik. Rodrik, an economist of Turkish origin based in the United ...

September 6, 2020, Paper: "Global value chains (GVCs) are the practical expressions and principal engines of today’s globalization. There is a burgeoning body of literature that takes a GVC ...