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A constitutional amendment to transform education in Minnesota
January 8, 2020
Article
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Expanding and diversifying housing: Approaches and impacts on opportunity
Jenny Schuetz | Future of the Middle Class Initiative at the Brookings Institution Abigail Wozniak | Director, Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute and Senior Research Economist Zach Swaziek | Research Assistant, Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute
December 16, 2019
Article
Superstar cities key
Superstars in the age of information
Douglas Clement | Managing Editor
December 13, 2019
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Manning Up and Womaning Down: How Husbands and Wives Report Earnings When She Earns More
Marta Murray-Close | U.S. Census Bureau Misty Heggeness | Visiting Scholar, Institute
December 10, 2019
Research
the idle rich no longer key
The idle rich, no longer
Douglas Clement | Managing Editor
December 6, 2019
Article
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A Welfare Analysis of Occupational Licensing in U.S. States
Morris Kleiner | Visiting Scholar Evan J. Soltas | MIT Department of Economics
October 15, 2019
Research
Working Papers
Use it or Lose it: Efficiency Gains from Wealth Taxation
Fatih Guvenen | Consultant Gueorgui Kambourov | University of Toronto Burhan Kuruscu | University of Toronto Sergio Ocampo | University of Minnesota Daphne Chen | Econ One
September 24, 2019
Research
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Fall 2019 Institute Conference
June 11, 2019
Event
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Toward One Wisconsin addresses barriers to inclusion
Rob Grunewald | Economist
May 7, 2019
Article
Conversations with The Fed
Inequality in America: 10 years after the Great Recession
Fabrizio Perri | Assistant Director and Monetary Advisor
March 13, 2019
Event
Working Papers
Inferring Inequality with Home Production
Job Boerma | Research Analyst Loukas Karabarbounis | Consultant
February 26, 2019
Research
OIGI Spring 2019 Conference Panel
Spring 2019 Institute Conference
February 8, 2019
Event