To understand the importance of reliable data to economic policymaking, think about driving without an accurate speedometer. Knowing when to press on the brakes and when to push down on the ...

The investment from longtime benefactors John Edwardson, MBA ’72, and Fran Edwardson is the latest in their history of ...

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Accounting for the costs of climate change is an increasing focus globally. In 2024, the United States alone had 27 “confirmed weather/climate disaster events with losses exceeding $1 billion each,” ...

Knowledge may be power, but information can also be overwhelming. Decision-makers often have access to so much potentially relevant data that they must choose what to ignore. Economists call this ...

Why are some countries rich and others poor? It’s among the most important questions in economics—in all the social sciences—and one at the heart of the work for which MIT’s Daron Acemoglu and Simon ...

It’s been seven years since US president Donald Trump took to a Washington, DC, podium to sing the praises of a tax bill, soon to become the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017—better known to many as the ...

In December, the US Supreme Court began hearing oral arguments in Moore v. United States. The case specifically involves the “mandatory repatriation tax,” a one-time tax levied as part of the 2017 Tax ...

Several recent studies point out that the COVID-19 pandemic is taking a greater toll on women in the workforce than on men. In this respect, the startup world is no different. A December 2020 headline ...

When the price of goods and services increases faster than the size of your paycheck, you’ll have less money in your pocket. That’s a main reason workers are so concerned about inflation, even if ...

During the fierce congressional debates that led to the passage of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, advocates and opponents of the proposal agreed on one thing: The once-in-a-generation bill, under the ...

For almost two decades, the conventional wisdom has been that when the US Federal Reserve makes a surprise rate decision, the resulting moves in the stock market are driven by the projected equity ...