The Washington Center for Equitable Growth hosted Suresh Naidu, Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs and Economics at Columbia University, on Wednesday, April 18. Naidu presented findings from an analysis of a new source of data on the effect of unions on economic inequality from 1936 to the present.
This event was the latest installment of our monthly academic seminar series, which aims to elevate important new research on issues related to whether and how economic inequality impacts economic growth. It was hosted at our offices in Washington, DC.
The Washington Center for Equitable Growth will host it’s next installment of its “Research on Tap” conversation series—a space for drinks, dialogue, and debate. The event will feature leading academics, policymakers, and advocates for a conversation about the causes and economic consequences of gender pay inequality—for individuals, families, and the broader U.S. economy.
The discussion will focus on questions at the intersection of gender pay equity and broadly shared economic growth:
What do we know about the causes of gender wage inequality?
How does pay inequality affect the broader economy, and how do those effects vary across demographic groups?
What is the range of public policy solutions that policymakers at the federal, state, and local levels can use to address the multiple drivers of gender pay inequality?
The event is open to the public. Please RSVP to attend.
Are unstable schedules for retail employees necessary for stores to be profitable? Or can stable schedules for employees not only improve quality of life but also improve business outcomes?
The authors of the Stable Scheduling Study presented the exciting results of their multi-year effort to look at the impact of scheduling policies on the Gap’s business and its employees. The work was funded in part by the Washington Center for Equitable Growth.
The Washington Center for Equitable Growth will host Janet Currie, the Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University and Director of Princeton’s Center for Health and Wellbeing, as well as an Equitable Growth Steering Committee member, for a seminar on Thursday, March 15. Currie will present a cross-country comparison of the disparities in mortality rates, as well as evolving trends among different sub-populations in the United States, Canada, and France.
This event will be the latest installment of our monthly academic seminar series, which aims to elevate important new research on issues related to whether and how economic inequality impacts economic growth. It will be hosted at our offices in Washington, DC.
The Washington Center for Equitable Growth hosted John Kwoka, the Neal F. Finnegan Distinguished Professor of Economics at Northeastern University, for a seminar on Thursday, February 22.
Antitrust practices in the United States have undergone dramatic changes over the past 30 to 40 years. The seminar explored the impact of recent merger enforcement policy on competition. Combining data on merger enforcement results and market concentration, Kwoka will present systematic evidence to support the importance of legal presumptions based on market structure in merger enforcement policy. You can read an earlier version of the paper here (SSRN subscription required).
This event was the latest installment of our monthly academic seminar series, which aims to elevate important new research on issues related to whether and how economic inequality impacts economic growth. It was hosted at our offices in Washington, DC.
The Washington Center for Equitable Growth hosted Marcus Casey, Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the David M. Rubenstein Fellow at the Brookings Institution, for a seminar On Wednesday, January 24. The seminar explored the impact of recent government measures on the effectiveness of charter schools over time relative to traditional public schools.
This event was be the latest installment of our monthly academic seminar series, which aims to elevate important new research on issues related to whether and how economic inequality impacts economic growth. It was hosted at our offices in Washington, DC.
The Washington Center for Equitable Growth hosted Jacob Robbins, Ph.D. candidate in economics at Brown University and Junior Fellow at Equitable Growth, for a seminar exploring a number of important macroeconomic trends in the United States over the past forty years. Among these trends: the rise of monopoly power and business concentration, the large increase in asset prices, the decrease in labor’s share of national income, the decline in the interest rate, and the decline in investment.
This event was be the latest installment of our monthly academic seminar series, which aims to elevate important new research on issues related to whether and how economic inequality impacts economic growth. It was be hosted at our offices in Washington, DC.
The Washington Center for Equitable Growth hosted Christopher Ruhm, Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the University of Virginia,for a seminar on the extent to which increases in county-level drug mortality rates from 1999 to 2015 are due to “deaths of despair,” characterized by a deterioration in economic conditions. If you would like to read the paper, you can find it here.
This event was the latest installment of our monthly academic seminar series, which aims to elevate important new research on issues related to whether and how economic inequality impacts economic growth.
The Washington Center for Equitable Growth hosted an installment of its new “Research on Tap” conversation series—a space for drinks, dialogue, and debate. The conversation focused on three questions at the intersection of tax policy, inequality, and growth: What is equitable growth? What can tax reform do to promote it? And how would tax reform motivated by the pursuit of equitable growth compare with the version represented by proposals from the Trump administration and Congress?
What’s the outlook for workers in an economy increasingly dominated by intelligent machines and the global elites who own them? The Washington Center for Equitable Growth hosted a discussion with tech entrepreneur and author Tim O’Reilly on the ideas presented in his newly published book, WTF?: What’s The Future and Why It’s Up to Us. In a conversation with Equitable Growth Executive Director and Chief Economist Heather Boushey, the founder of the eponymous firm O’Reilly Media explored how new technology networks and platforms are shaping the future of work and what that means for economic inequality, how we live, and the choices we make.
