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- 2026: Implications of Low Fertility and Declining Populations for the Operations of US State and Local Governments

- Jeffrey Clemens
- 2026: The Environmental Benefits of Low Fertility and Population Decline are Overstated

- Kevin Kuruc
- 2026: The Age Divide in the American Workplace

- Matteo Paradisi Nicola Bianchi
- 2026: Low Fertility and Fiscal Sustainability: The Effects of Past and Future Fertility Rates on the US Federal Budget Outlook

- Luke Pardue Lisa Dettling
- 2025: Coverage Isn’t Care: An Abundance Agenda for Medicaid

- Timothy Layton Craig Garthwaite
- 2025: Improving Housing Affordability

- Vincent Reina Benjamin Keys
- 2025: Current Evidence on Household Financial Well-Being

- Luke Pardue Ella Grant
- 2025: Beyond the Myths: A Clearer Path to Poverty Alleviation in America

- James Sullivan Melissa S. Kearney
- 2025: An Energy Strategy for National Renewal

- Joseph Majkut
- 2025: Aligning High-Skilled Immigration Policy with National Strategy

- Jeremy Neufeld
- 2024: Why Crime Matters, and What to Do About It

- Jennifer Doleac
- 2024: State Capacity for Building Infrastructure

- Zachary Liscow
- 2024: Eight Questions—and Some Answers—on the US Fiscal Situation

- Jason Furman
- 2024: The Surprising Resilience of Globalization: An Examination of Claims of Economic Fragmentation

- Brad Setser
- 2024: Technological Disruption in the US Labor Market

- David Deming, Christopher Ong, Lawrence H. Summers
- 2024: Protectionism is Failing and Wrongheaded: An Evaluation of the Post-2017 Shift toward Trade Wars and Industrial Policy

- Michael R. Strain
- 2023: The Next Business Tax Regime: What Comes After the TCJA

- Eric Zwick Owen Zidar
- 2023: Why Drug Pricing Reform Is Complicated: A Primer and Policy Guide to Pharmaceutical Prices in the US

- Amanda Starc Craig Garthwaite
- 2023: Where Is China’s Economy Headed?

- Hanming Fang
- 2023: The Economic Case for Smart Investing in America’s Youth

- Luke Pardue Melissa S. Kearney
- 2023: Reforming Social Security for the Long Haul

- Mark Duggan
- 2023: Overcoming Pandemic-Induced Learning Loss

- Jens Ludwig Jonathan Guryan
- 2023: Manufacturing Resilience: The US Drive to Reorder Global Supply Chains

- Mary Lovely
- 2023: High and Rising US Federal Debt: Causes and Implications

- Karen Dynan
- 2022: Will Population Aging Push Us over a Fiscal Cliff?

- John Sabelhaus
- 2022: Why and How to Expand US Immigration

- Tara Watson
- 2022: The Causes and Consequences of Declining US Fertility

- Phillip Levine Melissa S. Kearney
- 2022: New Insights for Innovation Policy

- Sina T. Ates Ufuk Akcigit
- 2022: Local Labor Market Impacts of the Energy Transition: Prospects and Policies

- Gordon Hanson
- 2022: Lessons from COVID-19 Aid to State and Local Governments for the Design of Federal Automatic Stabilizers

- Stan Veuger Jeffrey Clemens
- 2021: Data-Driven Opportunities to Scale Reemployment Opportunities and Social Insurance for Unemployed Workers During the Recovery

- Till von Watcher
- 2021: Business Continuity Insurance in the Next Disaster

- Samuel Hanson, Adi Sunderam, Eric Zwick
- 2021: America and International Trade Cooperation

- Chad P. Bown
- 2021: Addressing Inequities in the US K-12 Education System

- Sarah Reber Nora Gordon
- 2021: Science and Innovation: The Under-Fueled Engine of Prosperity

- Benjamin F. Jones
- 2021: Internet Access and its Implications for Productivity, Inequality, and Resilience

- Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas A. Bloom, Steven J. Davis
- 2021: Economic Perspectives on Infrastructure Investment

- James Poterba Edward L. Glaeser
- 2021: Challenges of a Clean Energy Transition and Implications for Energy Infrastructure Policy

- Ryan Kellogg Severin Boreinstein
- 2020: Walking the Tightrope: Variable Income and Limited Liquidity Among the US Middle Class

- Dan Silverman
- 2020: Middle-Class Redistribution: Tax and Transfer Policy for Most Americans

- Jeff Larrimore, Adam Looney, David Splinter
- 2020: Is the Decline of the Middle Class Greatly Exaggerated?

- Bruce Sacerdote
- 2020: Harnessing the Power of Markets to Solve the Climate Problem

- Gilbert E. Metcalf
- 2020: Climate Policy Enters Four Dimensions

- David Keith John M. Deutch
- 2020: Climate Convexity: The Inequality of a Warming World

- Trevor Houser
- 2020: A Renter Safety Net: A Call for Federal Emergency Rental Assistance

- Ingrid Gould Ellen, Amy Ganz, Katherine M. O’Regan
- 2020: Bringing Jobs to People: Improving Local Economic Development Policies

- Timothy J. Bartik
- 2020: The Faltering Escalator of Urban Opportunity

- David Autor
- 2019: Wealth Taxation: An Overview of the Issues

- Alan D. Viard
- 2019: Universal Basic Income (UBI) as a Policy Response to Current Challenges

- Magne Mogstad Melissa S. Kearney
- 2019: The Economics of Medicare for All

- Craig Garthwaite
- 2019: Policy Options for Taxing the Rich

- David Kamin Lily Batchelder
- 2019: Fiscal Policy With High Debt and Low Interest Rates

- William Gale
- 2019: Concerns About Concentration

- Nancy L. Rose
- 2019: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Responses to Market Concentration

- Thomas Philippon
- 2019: Can Innovation Policy Restore Inclusive Prosperity in America?

- John Van Reenen
- 2019: A Policymaker’s Guide to Labor Force Participation

- Bruce Reed Keith Hennessy
- 2019: What Works in Career and Technical Education (CTE)? A Review of Evidence and Suggested Policy Directions

- Ann Huff Stevens
- 2019: The Link Between Wages and Productivity Is Strong

- Michael R. Strain
- 2019: The Higher Wages Tax Credit

- David Neumark
- 2019: The Challenges of Leveraging Online Education for Economically Vulnerable Mid-Career Americans

- Joshua Goodman
- 2019: Scaling Apprenticeship to Increase Human Capital

- Robert I. Lerman
- 2019: Restoring Economic Opportunity for “The People Left Behindâ€: Employment Strategies for Rural America

- James P. Ziliak
- 2019: Policies to Reintegrate Former Inmates Into the Labor Force

- Manudeep Bhuller, Gordon B. Dahl, Katrine Løken
- 2019: How Minimum Zoning Mandates Can Improve Housing Markets and Expand Opportunity

- Joshua D. Gottlieb
- 2019: Economic Strategy for Higher Wages and Expanded Labor Participation

- Phillip Swagel Jason Furman
- 2019: Creating Economic Opportunity for More Americans Through Productivity Growth

- Chad Syverson
- 2019: A Policy Agenda to Develop Human Capital for the Modern Economy

- Amy Ganz, Austan Goolsbee, Glenn Hubbard, Melissa S. Kearney