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How Societies and Families Perpetuate Gender Wealth Inequalities

Céline Bessière
In "The Gender of Capital: How Families Perpetuate Wealth Inequality," sociologists Céline Bessière and Sibylle Gollac show how ostensibly egalitarian property laws still...
Labor

How Women in the Workplace Has Changed Over the Last 50 Years

Stefania Albanesi
Decades of progress have seen greater opportunities for women in the workplace, but sizable gender gaps still remain. Stefania Albanesi, Claudia Olivetti and Barbara...
Antitrust and Competition

The DOJ’s AdTech Suit Against Google Is Anything but Unconventional

Salil Mehra
The U.S. Department of Justice and eight states recently sued Google, claiming it runs its digital ad business to unfairly advantage its own business,...
Income Inequality

To Understand Earnings Inequality, We Need To Study Hours Inequality

Daniele Checchi
A growing literature on income inequality and labor earnings has overlooked the contribution of disparities in hours worked. In new research with Lara Vivian,...
Antitrust and Competition

Why the Antitrust Agencies Should Consider Prior Bad Acts in Merger Review

Michael A. Carrier
As the federal antitrust agencies consider revising the merger guidelines, they should add consideration of the merging parties’ previous bad acts, write Michael A....
Research

Policies To Reduce GHG Emissions Should Look to Agricultural Carbon Markets

Oranuch Wongpiyabovorn
As governments and companies look for ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, agricultural sequestration offers one promising method to combat climate change. However, for...
Commentary

Enrolling Capitalism in the Fight Against Climate Change

Alessio Terzi
Environmentally conscious critics of contemporary capitalism often highlight the system’s permissiveness toward egregious pollutant activities, typically enjoyed by the ultra-wealthy. Using private jet ownership...
Commentary

Bail In Universities to Fix the Student Loan Crisis

Benedikt Koehler
Universities should take some responsibility for the student debt they produce. Benedikt Koehler offers several potential solutions for governments and higher education institutions to...
Research

Investors Are Failing To Take into Account the Green Transition

Shaojun Zhang
A stock market that has priced in the transition risk away from greenhouse gasses would see higher future returns, the so-called carbon premium, for...
Industrial Policy

Industrial Policy Can’t Ignore Geography

Mark Muro
Industrial policy was once so out of fashion that it was jokingly called “the policy that shall not be named.” Now it’s back in...
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