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Paul Krugman

paulkrugman

Yes! America offers far less aid to families with children than other advanced countries, yet there's strong evidence that such aid has big long-term benefits 1/https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/01/22/biden-childtaxcredit-st

Diane Schanzenbach

dwschanz

.@davidbeckmann thanks for asking! Thread to follow on how I'm thinking about the recent trends in #FoodInsecurity in light of this week's @JasonDeParle NYT story.https://twitter.com/davidbeckmann/status/1277055465600532480 Congres

Claudia Sahm FULL CHECKS NOW

Claudia_Sahm

“These caveats do not mean faster data should be ignored, but that we need to know its weaknesses while marvelling at its speed.” @ChrisGiles_ yes and yeshttps://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.ft.com/content/366653da-fc7b-4f3d-bf2f-ef95dfc180

Anna Stansbury

annastansbury

Has been well worth getting up at 4.15am this morning for the fascinating presentations in today's @iza_bonn Workshop "Labor Markets and the Phillips Curve"!http://conference.iza.org/conference_files/Macro_2020/viewProgram?con

Claudia Sahm FULL CHECKS NOW

Claudia_Sahm

seeing research today saying that rebates to families did NOT help in this crisis. my findings with Matthew Shapiro and Joel Slemrod from a high-quality, nationally representative survey say they

Adam Ozimek

ModeledBehavior

Some more detailed thoughts on the jobs report, what's driving both headwinds and tailwinds for hiring.... First, up PPP: does the end of the 8 week forgiveness period for the

Ben Moll

ben_moll

When a small minority of loud economists attacks researchers from other disciplines, it makes us all look bad.And allows the media to pit economists against epidemiologists in this unhelpful way

Gianluca Violante

glviolante

This is a useful thread which happens very kind toward my own research. Thanks @Simon_Mongey and @adam_tooze. Let me take the opportunity to articulate one thought and I apologize in

Anna Stansbury

annastansbury

In our paper, @LHSummers and I argue that the *decline in worker power* is behind many of the major trends that have shaped the American economy in recent decades [1/N](WP

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