The introduction of Universal Pre-K in various states and cities was linked to an increase in business applications and the overall number of business establishments. (also effects on enrollment and maternal labor supply, as in other studies)
Cool new CEA research highlighting the foundational role of child care for the US economy. It shows that investments in childcare are associated with increased overall economic activity. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
Please consider submitting to next year's MEA and please share widely! @kirabojackson.bsky.social will be giving the C. Woody Thompson lecture (and I will give a Presidential talk as well). Hope to see you there!
This is a cool paper. U.S. parents invest more in their children when they believe upward mobility is possible. Belief in the American Dream is self-fulfilling From the NBER mobility conference live stream www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDpd...
2023 brought typical US households 4% more purchasing power than they had in 2022. You probably already had that impression from the news, right?
The $190 billion in federal pandemic relief raised K-12 achievement and narrowed academic gaps widened by the pandemic, from Dan C. Dewey, Erin M. Fahle, Thomas J. Kane, Sean F. Reardon, and Douglas O. Staiger https://www.nber.org/papers/w32897
