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A rich bargain: When your cup of coffee comes with a shot of inflation
Andrew Goodman-Bacon | Senior Research Economist, Institute Lisa Camner McKay | Writer/Analyst, Institute Nina Leo | Creative Director
October 5, 2022
Data
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Scholar spotlight: CarlyWill Sloan
Tu-Uyen Tran | Senior Writer
October 5, 2022
Article
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Scholar spotlight: Belinda Archibong
Lisa Camner McKay | Writer/Analyst, Institute
October 5, 2022
Article
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Scholar spotlight: Peter Arcidiacono
Lisa Camner McKay | Writer/Analyst, Institute
October 5, 2022
Article
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Scholar spotlight: Didem Tüzemen
Tu-Uyen Tran | Senior Writer
October 5, 2022
Article
Working Papers
Use It or Lose It: Efficiency and Redistributional Effects of Wealth Taxation
Fatih Guvenen | Consultant Gueorgui Kambourov | University of Toronto Burhanettin Kuruscu | University of Toronto Sergio Ocampo | Western University Daphne Chen | Econ One
October 4, 2022
Research
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How the racial wealth gap has evolved—and why it persists
Lisa Camner McKay | Writer/Analyst, Institute
October 3, 2022
Article
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The Impact of Limiting Applicant Information on Rental Housing Discrimination
Marina Mileo Gorzig | Visiting Scholar, Institute Deborah Rho, PhD | University of St. Thomas
September 21, 2022
Research
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Conversations with the Fed: The Complex Economics of Growing Old
Mariacristina De Nardi | Consultant, Institute
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Event
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Wealth of Two Nations: The U.S. Racial Wealth Gap, 1860-2020
Ellora Derenoncourt | Visiting Scholar, Institute Chi Hyun Kim | University of Bonn Moritz Kuhn | University of Bonn, CEPR, and IZA Moritz Schularick | University of Bonn and Sciences Po Paris
June 10, 2022
Research
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Can the minimum wage combat employers’ labor market power?
Jeff Horwich | Senior Economics Writer
June 3, 2022
Article
Working Papers
Reparations and Persistent Racial Wealth Gaps
Job Boerma | University of Wisconsin-Madison Loukas Karabarbounis | Consultant
May 13, 2022
Research