while keeping the epidemic in check. Here I use basic economic principles to shed light on the key tradeoffs. A central …

The vast literature on earnings inequality has so far largely ignored the role played by hours of work. This paper … inequality in hours worked as well as the correlation between the two. We use data for the US, the UK, France, and Germany over … the period 1991-2016 to examine the evolution of inequality in hours worked and of the correlation between individual …

this return inequality? I study capital taxation in an economy in which return rates endogenously correlate with wealth … lower marginal tax rates. The endogeneity of returns generates an inequality multiplier effect between wealth and its …

financial literacy and business ownership for the increase in wealth inequality between college and non-college households …Using new long-run microdata, this paper studies wealth and income trends of college and non-college households in the … United States since 1956. We document the emergence of a substantial college wealth premium since the 1980s, which is …

-term outcomes such as education, teenage pregnancy, occupation, mortality, and victimization …

This paper provides a critical review of models of the spread of the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) that have been … influential in recent policy discussions. It notes potentially important features of the real- world environment that the standard …