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The Pandemic Recession’s Gender Gap
Eduardo Porter, Tess Vigeland, Yana Gallen, Heather Sarsons
Women suffered significantly in the early months of the current recession, raising important questions about...
Topics:
COVID-19, Employment & Wages

A Vaccine for Billions
Eduardo Porter, Tess Vigeland, Michael Kremer, Canice Prendergast
The economic benefits of ending the COVID-19 pandemic even one day earlier are enormous. Michael...
Topics:
COVID-19, Health care

Deep Dive Series – The Future of Money?
Eduardo Porter, Tess Vigeland, Eric Budish, Brian Platz, Yuval Rooz, Luigi Zingales
If use of cash continues to wane, will cryptocurrency be the new dollar bill? Is...
Topics:
Technology & Innovation

Deep Dive Series – Is the Future Cashless?
Eduardo Porter, Tess Vigeland, Fernando Alvarez, Raghuram Rajan
When COVID lockdowns started, the use of cash plummeted. But the pandemic only accelerated a...

We’re public health experts. We need to do a better job of talking to conservatives.
Washington Post; Lindsey J. Leininger, Harold Pollack
Topics:
COVID-19

Deep Dive Series – The Health Care Conundrum, Part 2
Eduardo Porter, Tess Vigeland, Katherine Baicker, Stacy Lindau, Neale Mahoney, David Meltzer, Kenneth Polonsky
The US pays roughly twice as much per person for healthcare as other wealthy nations....
Topics:
COVID-19, Health care

Deep Dive Series – The Health Care Conundrum, Part 1
Eduardo Porter, Tess Vigeland, Katherine Baicker, Pietro Tebaldi
The global pandemic has revealed critical gaps and weaknesses in the US health care system....
Topics:
COVID-19, Health care

Deep Dive Series – Climate vs. Development: The Global Dilemma
Eduardo Porter, Tess Vigeland, Michael Greenstone, Amir Jina
How you experience the global energy crisis and climate change depends in large part on...
Topics:
Energy & Environment
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