NBER in the News - 2017

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Date	Source	Headline	Working Paper
12/29/2017	The Des Moines Register	Iowa needs a higher, not lower, tax on beer in new year	w4385
12/29/2017	Mint	US retreat from global stage may hurt the dollar's dominance	w24145 or summary
12/28/2017	New York Magazine	The EPA Wanted to Delay New Lead-Paint Rules for 6 More Years. A Court Said No.	w22558 or summary
12/28/2017	Silicon ANGLE	When AI goes rogue: Moral debates could kill the hype	w23180
12/26/2017	Bloomberg	Putin Tries to Lure $1 Trillion Home as Sanctions Fear Deepens	w23712
12/21/2017	US News & World Report	In Tied US Elections, Chance, Not Voters, Often Decides Final Outcome	w8590
12/21/2017	Reuters	In tied US elections, chance, not voters, often decides final outcome	w8590
12/20/2017	The Atlantic	America Experiences More Pain Than Other Countries	w24087
12/20/2017	Quartz	How a severe drought in Sicily in 1893 created the Mafia	w24115
12/20/2017	US News & World Report	How to Water a Food Desert	w24094 or summary
12/20/2017	The Washington Post	Get ready business owners: minimum wages are going up all over the place in 2018	w23532
12/20/2017	The Huffington Post	More Elections Than You'd Think Are Decided By A Coin Toss	w8590
12/19/2017	Bloomberg	Retiring Early Just Might Kill You, Says New Research	w24127 or summary
12/19/2017	The 74	Study Shows That Girls in Korea Score Higher, Enroll in More STEM Classes, When Assigned ...	w24128
12/18/2017	The Atlantic	LA's Air Pollution May Be Harming Teen Brains	w21787
12/18/2017	Winnipeg Free Press	A complicated road ahead of us	w22776 or summary
12/15/2017	Chalkbeat	A new Memphis nonprofit sees training teachers in dyslexia therapy as key to closing literacy gap ...	w24107 or summary
12/15/2017	Breitbart News Network	CHINA SHOCK: Study Shows Chinese Imports Caused 'Deaths' of American Factories	w24080
12/15/2017	Newsweek	Raising Taxes And Cutting Social Programs Led to Hitler and The Nazis, Study Says	w24106
12/14/2017	Market Watch	Why debt can be so dangerous in retirement	w23664 or summary
12/13/2017	The Washington Post	How occupational licensing laws inhibit interstate mobility	w24107 or summary
12/13/2017	Newsweek	Sessions and Christie Must Stop Telling Lies About Marijuana	w21345
12/12/2017	The Irish Times	Will the bitcoin bubble burst?	w23191
12/12/2017	Bloomberg	How Requiring Bar Exams Cuts Into Workforce Mobility: Eco Pulse	w24107 or summary
12/12/2017	Vox	Study: austerity helped the Nazis come to power	w24106
12/12/2017	The Seattle Times	Who won from the Obama stimulus? It's complicated.	w24093
12/12/2017	The Wall Street Journal	Economists Think Potatoes Helped Promote World Peace	w24066
12/11/2017	Newsweek	Potatoes Saved the World From Constant War Because They Are That Delicious	w24066
12/11/2017	Education Week	Can Schools Help Uncover 'Lost Einsteins' in Next Generation of Inventors?	w24062 or summary
12/10/2017	The Jakarta Post	Potatoes for peace: how the humble tuber stopped conflict in Europe	w24066
12/10/2017	Daily Mail UK	Potatoes for peace: how the humble tuber stopped conflict in Europe	w24066
12/9/2017	Hong Kong Free Press	How can China and Hong Kong combat inequality through education?	w23119
12/9/2017	The Dallas Morning News	Fracking, Jerusalem, school counselors, Texas, education, Bunni Pounds
12/8/2017	The Times of London	Apple of the Earth	w24066
12/8/2017	The Times of London	How the birth of potato growing prevented war in Europe	w24066
12/8/2017	Quartzy	The global dominance of white people is thanks to the potato	w24066
12/8/2017	Live Mint	High income families are more likely to produce inventors	w24062 or summary
12/7/2017	The Washington Post	The richest 1 percent now owns more of the country’s wealth than at any time in the past 50 years	w24085 or summary
12/7/2017	CBS News	Why America is a country of 'lost Einsteins'	w24062 or summary
12/6/2017	Market Watch	Opinion: Give the Republican tax cuts time, and investment and wages will rise	w15263
12/6/2017	Quartz	America needs to ask second and third generation immigrants this question	w24067
12/6/2017	New York Magazine	After Tax Cuts for the Rich, Trump Hopes to Take Food From Poor Kids	w21562
12/6/2017	Women's Health	Why Babies Born In Winter Are More Successful, According To Science	w23660
12/5/2017	Healthcare Dive: Healthcare and Health IT News	ER facility fees skyrocket faster than outpatient or overall healthcare spending	w23623 or summary
12/5/2017	Duluth News Tribune	Congressman's View: Tax bill: Mercedes for the rich, hubcaps for the middle class	w20753
12/4/2017	Investopedia	Federal Reserve May Introduce A Cryptocurrency In The Future	w23711
12/4/2017	The 74	New Report: What American School Districts Can Learn From How Israel Successfully Rotates Its ...	w24028
12/3/2017	The Hill	Share buybacks don't undermine case for corporate tax cuts	w15263
12/2/2017	The Huffington Post	Here Are 6 Of The Most Radical Provisions In The GOP Tax Bill	w23571
11/30/2017	The Daily Caller	Raising The Minimum Wage Eliminates Jobs And Hurts Our Most Vulnerable Workers	w23532
11/30/2017	The New York Times	AI Will Transform the Economy. But How Much, and How Soon?	w24001
11/29/2017	Washington Post	Air pollution is making you worse at your job	w24048
11/29/2017	Courthouse News Service	Bill Expanding Conceal-Carry Rights Expected to Clear Vote	w23510
11/28/2017	Inside Higher Ed	Study: Loans Increased Community College Attainment	w24060 or summary
11/27/2017	Forbes	Today's Must-Reads For Entrepreneurs: Did Going Public Professionalize Etsy Or Ruin It?	w22469 or summary
11/27/2017	The Daily Caller	Immigrant Startups Can Help Fuel Economic Growth	w23875
11/27/2017	Market Watch	Opinion: The chance of a bitcoin crash is greater than 80%	w23191
11/27/2017	Market Watch	When student debt is a good thing	w24060 or summary
11/27/2017	Wall Street Journal	Maybe American Students Are Bad at Standardized Tests Because They Don’t Try Very Hard	w24004
11/26/2017	Times Union	Absent teachers cause for concern amid substitute shortage	w13356
11/26/2017	Digital Journal	Op-Ed: Many are pessimistic about the consequences of AI	w23285 or summary
11/24/2017	The New York Times	From Atari (Remember It?), a New Console With Old Games	w23552 or summary
11/24/2017	Market Watch	Businesses eliminated hundreds of thousands of full-time jobs to avoid Obamacare mandate	w24037
11/22/2017	The New York Times	As 'Ban the Box' Spreads, Private Employers Still Have Questions	w22469 or summary
11/22/2017	themanitoban.com	Left behind in the brave new world	w23285 or summary
11/21/2017	Bloomberg	This Central Bank Crisis Tool Might Actually Hurt: Eco Pulse	w24039
11/21/2017	Syracuse.com	Refugees help struggling Upstate NY cities with 'growth and rebirth,' report says	w23498 or summary
11/20/2017	Dallas Observer	Segregation Just as Bad for White Dallas as it Is for Black and Latino Dallas	w19905 or summary
11/20/2017	CNBC	American students try harder if you pay them, economists found	w22107
11/20/2017	National Review	Study: Land-Use Restrictions Drag the US Economy Down	w23790
11/19/2017	The 74	Make College Free? Not So Fast. New Study Shows That Students Are Helped By Making College ...	w23736 or summary
11/17/2017	Tampa Bay Times	In struggling upstate New York cities, refugees vital to rebirth	w23498 or summary
11/16/2017	Market Watch	Fears grow that popularity of ETFs is a ticking time bomb	w22829
11/15/2017	Cleveland.com	Republican tax cuts are being sold as economic stimulus. How does that differ from Obama's ...	w16759 or summary
11/15/2017	Market Watch	Older Americans want to work - so why aren't they?	w24008 or summary
11/14/2017	Providence Journal	My Turn: Dave Ross: RI needs energy to power innovation	w22454 or summary
11/14/2017	Newsweek	Road Map: Thousands of Ancient Assyrian Tablets Reveal Clues to Locations of Lost Cities	w23992
11/13/2017	The Times	Early trade accounts used to pinpoint lost Bronze Age cities	w23992
11/12/2017	CNBC	Trade school, not 4-year college, is a better bet to solve the US income gap, researchers say	w23950
11/11/2017	Chicago Tribune	Trump says he's 'big loser' in GOP tax plan; experts say it could save him tens of millions	w21651 or summary
11/11/2017	Gulf Business	Why Saudi may struggle to repatriate assets after corruption crackdown	w23805 or summary
11/10/2017	Business News Daily	The Growth of the Gig Economy: A Look at American Freelancers	w22667 or summary
11/10/2017	Mint (India)	Digital innovation may be fuelling inequality	w23987
11/9/2017	CNBC	Retailers are charging the same prices across US, boosting income inequality, new research shows	w23996 or summary
11/9/2017	Pacific Standard	The Criminal-Justice Data Behind Meek Mill's Latest Prison Sentence	w22399
11/8/2017	Washington Examiner	Don't fret over the student loan deduction - millennials will be much better off under tax reform	w9553 or summary
11/8/2017	Breitbart News Network	NBER Study: Over Half of California Millennials Will Be Poorer than Parents	w22910
11/7/2017	Information Management	Robot productivity boon demands a little patience	w24001
11/7/2017	Market Watch	Medicaid expansion saved 50000 people from bankruptcy in 2 years	w24002
11/6/2017	CNBC	CEO: Robots won't destroy all the jobs because someone has to service the robots	w23285 or summary
11/6/2017	Fortune	Tech CEO Says We'll Wind Up Fixing the Robots That Take Our Jobs	w23285 or summary
11/6/2017	Bloomberg	Offshore Havens Show Policy Failures at Home	w23805 or summary
11/5/2017	Bangkok Post	The necessity of education reform	w23950
11/5/2017	The Huffington Post	Why Girls Leave STEM - And What You Can Do About It	w23735
11/4/2017	San Francisco Chronicle	Checkered past is no barrier to Checkr job	w22469 or summary
11/3/2017	The Huffington Post	Study: 2 out of 3 Pain Patients Quit Opioids with Marijuana	w21345
10/31/2017	Business Standard	India's growth slump: No easy answers	c10973
10/30/2017	New York Post	Here's how much being unhealthy will cost you	w23963
10/30/2017	Market Watch	Here's how much being unhealthy will cost you over a lifetime	w23963
10/29/2017	Wall Street Journal	How a $2,400 Cap on 401(k) Deductions Would Affect Your Savings	w20738
10/28/2017	New York Times	Limit on 401(k) Savings? It's About Paying for Tax Cuts	w20738
10/27/2017	International Business Times	Vocational Education May Be Better Strategy Than College For Many Americans: Study	w23950
10/24/2017	Market Watch	This is when people are most likely to look at their bank accounts	w23945
10/24/2017	Market Watch	75% of the authors in this field are still male	w23953
10/24/2017	Politico	What Trump gets wrong about 401(k)s	w20738
10/23/2017	The Hindu	No skin in the game	w23904
10/23/2017	The Hill	Trump's opioid agency fails to cite marijuana's benefits, despite mounting evidence	w21345
10/23/2017	Los Angeles Times	Republicans want to slash tax deductions for your 401(k). That's actually a good idea!	w20738
10/21/2017	Fox News	Exercise should be fun -- you already have more than enough work to do	w23567
10/21/2017	CNBC	Machine learning could lead to economic hypergrowth, new research suggests	w23928
10/20/2017	New York Times	Republicans Consider Sharp Cut in 401(k) Contribution Limits	w20738
10/18/2017	The Pitt News	In wake of Maria don't blame Puerto Rico, blame the US	w23681
10/18/2017	The Atlantic	Why Parents Make Flawed Choices About Their Kids' Schooling	w23912
10/18/2017	The Washington Post	'Shrinking, shrinking, shrinking': Puerto Rico faces a demographic disaster	w23410
10/18/2017	The Seattle Times	Behind the productivity slowdown: A big drop in new firms	w23875
10/18/2017	Chicago Tribune	'Shrinking, shrinking, shrinking': Puerto Rico faces demographic disaster as it struggles to rebuild	w23410
10/17/2017	Market Watch	In the age of automation, this is how immigrants help American workers	w23935
10/16/2017	Education Week	Closures, Charters Drove Newark School Improvements in Reading	w23922
10/16/2017	India Times Lifestyle Network	Why The Month You Were Born In Can Determine How Successful You Become	w23660
10/16/2017	The New York Times	How a Healthy Economy Can Shorten Life Spans	w22690
10/16/2017	The Hechinger Report	Smart students attract parents more than smart schools	w23912
10/16/2017	CBS News	Retirement and happiness: It's complicated	w21326
10/16/2017	Prairie Public Broadcasting	Study: Oil Transportation Emissions Costlier Than Spills	w23852
10/13/2017	Swarajya	Economic Shocks And Their Impact On Marriage Market	w23604
10/13/2017	Miami Herald	Schools want students to learn from technology	w23744
10/13/2017	Arizona Science and Innovation Desk	As More Die From Opioids, Will Arizona Pass A 911 Good Samaritan Law?	w23171
10/11/2017	The Fiscal Times	Why the Trump Tax Cut May Not Create Many New Jobs	w21035
10/11/2017	chalkbeat.org	A school choice quandary: parents care more about who attends a school than about its quality, in ...	w23912
10/11/2017	The Washington Post	The Trump administration ignores science on birth control	w23911 & w23931 or summary
10/11/2017	Market Watch	The fuzzy math behind Trump saying corporate tax cut leads to $4000 pay rise	w15023
10/10/2017	Market Watch	This is what happens when women can't afford birth control	w23911
10/10/2017	Council on Foreign Relations	New Travel & Refugee Restrictions, Same Bad Impact for Women	w23498 or summary
10/10/2017	The Wall Street Journal	Parents with High Expectations May End Up Raising More Successful Children	w23709 or summary
10/9/2017	Washington Examiner	Legislators less likely to support a military draft if their kids are at risk: Study	w23904
10/9/2017	Market Watch	Does rent control on property increase or reduce crime rates? These economists have the answer...	w23914
10/5/2017	CNBC	The No. 1 thing mentally strong parents do to make sure their kids succeed	w23709 or summary
10/2/2017	South China Morning Post	Nearly 40 per cent of Hong Kong students in 'veiled' poll support violent protests	w23110
10/2/2017	Market Watch	Free college made universities less equal - in England, at least	w23888
10/2/2017	EurekAlert	Balance forgiveness programs more effective at reducing credit card debt than lowering monthly ...	w23545
10/2/2017	Market Watch	What a ban on e-cigarette flavors could mean for smokers	w23865
10/2/2017	The Cheat Sheet	100 Million Americans Live With Chronic Pain: Here's How Much It Costs to Deal With It	w23649
10/1/2017	Business Insider	HGTV's 'Fixer Upper' makes house flipping seem like a good investment - but there's a catch	w23740
9/30/2017	The Sacramento Bee	Could first jobs mean better futures for these teens? Mayor hopes so	w23371 or summary
9/30/2017	New York Post	Beyond relief, Puerto Rico needs a path to prosperity	w23681
9/28/2017	Washington Examiner	Gary Cohn is correct: People don't buy homes because of the mortgage deduction	w23600
9/27/2017	National Review	Corporate Tax Cuts Would Benefit Ordinary Americans	w15263 & w20289 or summary
9/27/2017	The Washington Post	A petri dish for progressivism, and the capital city of alternative facts	w23532
9/27/2017	The National Interest	America Must Maintain Its Commitment to Refugee Resettlement	w23498 or summary
9/26/2017	Market Watch	When government invests in low-income students, it recoups the money, study suggests	w23860
9/25/2017	Market Watch	Legalizing medical marijuana leads to an increase in social security disability claims	w23862
9/25/2017	US News & World Report	3 Lessons Learned From Education Technology Research	w23744
9/22/2017	CNBC	Born in September?	w23660
9/22/2017	The Weekly Standard	Rewarding Rigor	w19165
9/22/2017	The Washington Post	President Trump's claim that 10 refugees overseas cost as much as one in the US	w23498 or summary
9/21/2017	Politico	The Life-and-Death Consequences of Summer Jobs Programs	w21470
9/21/2017	Politico	Group Therapy Is Saving Lives in Chicago	w21178 or summary
9/20/2017	Business Insider	The last time the Fed tried to exit emergency measures was just after the Great Depression - it ...	w23788
9/20/2017	Market Watch	These personality traits explain why CEOs rise to the top	w23832
9/20/2017	Breitbart News Network	Report: Keeping Search Engine Data for Long Periods Doesn't Improve Results	w23815
9/19/2017	The Register	Google's data hoarding is like homeopathy. It doesn't work - study	w23815
9/19/2017	CNBC	The rich got richer last year, even as 'average' income rises	w23119
9/19/2017	The Huffington Post	Islamist And Western Populism Have More In Common Than You Think	w23559
9/19/2017	In Touch	'Teen Mom' Has Had a Dramatic Effect on Teenage Pregnancy - Find out How the Reality Show ...	w19795
9/17/2017	The Washington Post	Students have new ways of measuring degrees of success	w22935
9/17/2017	St. Louis Post	Editorial: The governor's task force overlooks immigrant entrepreneurs at its own peril	w21123
9/16/2017	Financial Express	Where is Black money? Not Switzerland, rich and corrupt Indians park their wealth in these countries	w23805 or summary
9/15/2017	The Washington Post	African Americans are the only racial group in US still making less than they did in 2000	w9873 or summary
9/15/2017	Reader's Digest	Why September Babies Are More Successful, According to Science	w23660
9/15/2017	Forbes	Tax Haven Cash Rising, Now Equal To At Least 10% Of World GDP	w23805 or summary
9/14/2017	The Times of India	Forget Swiss, Indians prefer Asian tax havens	w23805 or summary
9/14/2017	The Huffington Post	How To Buy A House When You're Pretty Sure You Can't Afford One	w9054 or summary
9/14/2017	STAT News	Catholic hospitals are multiplying, and so is their impact on reproductive health care	w23768
9/14/2017	Market Watch	Why marijuana legalization won't hurt young people - or help them	w23779
9/14/2017	Breitbart News Network	California Continues to Lead America in Poverty	w6813 or summary
9/14/2017	Snopes	Are Second Born Children More Likely To Become Criminals?	w23038
9/13/2017	National Review	Seattle's New Income Tax Bodes Ill for the City's Economy	w23532
9/13/2017	Market Watch	Opinion: The index of index creation is off the charts	Read the Research
9/13/2017	The Los Angeles Review of Books	Detroit Open City	w23146
9/12/2017	Market Watch	Why robots should pay taxes	w23806
9/12/2017	Market Watch	This is what happens when you pay women to take maternity leave	w23793
9/11/2017	Market Watch	Here are the countries whose wealthy stash their riches in offshore havens	w23772 & w23805 or summary
9/11/2017	Market Watch	Fed's is following a playbook written when gold fled the Nazis	w23788
9/11/2017	The Daily Mail	Oldest children in the class really ARE more successful: Those born in early September go on to ...	w23660
9/7/2017	Business Insider	America's teacher shortage is leading some states to lower their requirements to become one	w21393
9/6/2017	Market Watch	Medicaid expansion boosts prescriptions for mental health medications	w23760
9/6/2017	The Kansas City Star	Gov. Eric Greitens warns against raising minimum wage to $15	w23532
9/5/2017	The Wall Street Journal	Why You Might Want to Leave a 401(k) With a Former Employer	w21854
9/5/2017	Market Watch	One way Hurricane Irma could affect the US - even if it misses Florida	w23756
9/4/2017	Market Place	The big money NFL players earn may not last into retirement unless they make a plan	w21085
9/4/2017	The Economist	Why Chinese children born in years of the dragon are more successful	w23709 or summary
9/2/2017	National Catholic Reporter	With robots on the way, human labor challenged to keep its place	w23285 or summary
9/1/2017	The Huffington Post	In New York State, A Glimmer Of Good News About The Opioid Crisis	w23171
8/31/2017	Market Watch	Colleges get more students to attend from this - than cutting tuition	w23736 or summary
8/31/2017	The Economist	Market concentration can benefit consumers, but needs scrutiny	w23687
8/31/2017	Washington Post	The GOP is looking for ways to pay for tax cuts. Your 401(k) may bear the cost	w20738
8/30/2017	Quartz	Chinese children born in the year of the dragon are more successful-but not due to supernatural ...	w23709 or summary
8/30/2017	Higher Education News and Jobs	Efforts to Reduce College Costs May Have Little Impact on Degree Attainment	w23736 or summary
8/30/2017	The Irish Times	Gay male couples 'discriminated against' by Dublin Airbnb hosts	w9873 or summary
8/29/2017	Inside Higher Ed	Report: Boosting Quality More Effective than Tuition Cuts	w23736 or summary
8/29/2017	Inside Higher Ed	Why Female Students Leave STEM	w23735
8/29/2017	Fox Business	Workers Save More for Retirement When Employers Tell Them to, Study Says	w23679
8/29/2017	Quartz	House flippers triggered the US housing market crash, not poor subprime borrowers	w23740
8/29/2017	Wealth Management	Workers Save More For Retirement When Nudged by Employers	w23679
8/29/2017	Wall Street Journal	Workers Save More for Retirement When Employers Tell Them to, Study Says	w23679
8/28/2017	Public Radio International	How H-1B work visas transformed tech and education in the US and India	w14792 or summary
8/27/2017	The Huntington News	Opioid Use Increases from Economic Decline, due to Unemployment, Mental Health Conditions	w23192 or summary
8/26/2017	BusinessTech	Why having a fast internet connection increases your chances of landing a job in SA	w23582 or summary
8/26/2017	International Business Times	US Opioid Use Linked To Unemployment, Researchers Say	w23192 or summary
8/26/2017	The Statesman	Stony Brook ranks among the top schools for upward mobility with the help of an equal opportunity ...	w23618 or summary
8/24/2017	The Economist	How the shape of global banking has turned upside down	w22307
8/24/2017	Radio Free Europe. Radio Liberty	Russian Offshore Wealth Likely Equal To Country's Entire Household Wealth	w23712
8/24/2017	El Nuevo Día (English version)	The blow of the derogation of section 936	w23681
8/24/2017	International Business Times	Millennials' Best Chances Of Climbing The Ladder, According To Two Recent Studies	w23618 or summary
8/24/2017	Xinhua	Oldest kids in class do better: study	w23660
8/24/2017	The Washington Post	Under 50? You still haven’t hit rock bottom, happiness-wise	w23724
8/23/2017	The Moscow Times	Russian Wealth Abroad Skyrockets Since Soviet Collapse	w23712
8/23/2017	Real Money. The Street	Repeal of Mortgage Interest Deduction Is Way Past Due	w23600
8/23/2017	Pravda Report	Why Russia should declare war on offshore companies	w23712
8/22/2017	Bloomberg	Chinese Dragon Children Are a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy	w23709 or summary
8/22/2017	The New York Times	College Football Is Here. But What Are We Really Cheering?	w22611
8/22/2017	US News & World Report	Study: Happiness is a U and Middle Age is Depressing	w23724
8/22/2017	Business Insider	There's a $136400 reason so many Americans feel they haven't made economic progress	w23371 or summary
8/21/2017	Forbes	If You Want Your Children To Go To Harvard, Don't Have Them In The Summer	w23660
8/21/2017	Investor's Business Daily	Yes, China Steals US Intellectual Property, But That Doesn't Mean Trade With China Is A Bad Thing	w23487 or summary
8/21/2017	Education Week	'Redshirt' Your Kids? Study Adds Fuel to a Complicated Debate	w23660
8/21/2017	Business Insider	Welcoming refugees brings unexpected economic benefits	w23498 or summary
8/21/2017	Washington Examiner	Study: Ambulance response times increased under Obamacare	w23722
8/18/2017	Wall Street Journal	The Oldest Kids in the Class May Get an Edge in College Admissions	w23660
8/17/2017	Forbes	Still Sick: Even Massive Subsidies Won't Help ObamaCare	w23668 or summary
8/16/2017	Market Watch	This one change encourages companies to replace workers with automation	w23667
8/14/2017	National Real Estate Investor	What Will Hosting the 2028 Olympics Do for Los Angeles' Reputation?	w14854
8/14/2017	The Register	Raising minimum wage will raise something else: An army of robots taking away folks' jobs	w23667
8/14/2017	Science Daily	Doctors trained at lowest-ranked medical schools prescribe more opioids	w23645
8/14/2017	Bangkok Post	Survey: Millennials embrace digitisation skills	w23285 or summary
8/14/2017	The Washington Post	The 'war on whites' is a myth - and an ugly one	w9873 or summary
8/14/2017	Washington Examiner	New study finds minimum wage hikes lead to job automation	w23667
8/13/2017	WKRN-TV	6 weird advantages of being left-handed	w12387
8/10/2017	Bloomberg	The Pitfalls of Cutting Low-Skilled Immigration	w23125 or summary
8/10/2017	Economics21	Curing America's Expensive Drugs	w23640 or summary
8/10/2017	Vox	How much is living a pain-free life worth? Economists say up to $145 per day.	w23649
8/9/2017	Market Watch	Harvard-educated doctors prescribe fewer opioids - but not because they had an Ivy League ...	w23645
8/9/2017	KYMA-DT	Study: Doctors from lower-ranked med schools prescribe more opioids	w23645
8/9/2017	The American Journal of Managed Care	Prescribing Patterns Indicate Role of Physician Education in Controlling Opioid Epidemic	w23645
8/8/2017	Winnipeg Free Press	Raising minimum wage won't fight poverty	w23532
8/8/2017	BBC	Climate change is disrupting the birds and the bees	w21681
8/8/2017	Bloomberg	Harvard-Educated Doctors Prescribe Far Fewer Opioids	w23645
8/8/2017	US News & World Report	Doctor Training Relates to Opioid Prescribing	w23645
8/8/2017	Market Watch	4 ways the workplace has not changed for American mothers	w23644
8/7/2017	The New York Times	Medicare Advantage Spends Less on Care, So Why Is It Costing So Much?	w23090
8/7/2017	The Washington Post	How much would you pay to live pain-free?	w23649
8/7/2017	Market Watch	Why the story of widening inequality may be wildly misleading	w23655
8/7/2017	International Business Times	How Changing Corporate Tax Rates Affects The Economy, Government Revenue	w23653
8/7/2017	EurekAlert! Science News	Study links unhealthy segregated neighborhoods to childhood asthma	w23622
8/3/2017	Atlanta Black Star	Is Ending Affirmative Action the Real Objective Behind the Justice Department's Look at College ...	w21612
8/3/2017	The Economist	Why national accounts might be like corporate balance-sheets	w23612
8/2/2017	Los Angeles Times	Does carrying a gun make you safer? No. In fact, right-to-carry laws increase violent crime	w23510
8/2/2017	Forbes	Are The Best Colleges Academic Gated Communities?	w23618 or summary
8/1/2017	Inside Higher Ed	Help Your Students Earn A's by Not Focusing on Grades	w23638
8/1/2017	Bloomberg	The US Economy Would Be Better Off If Men Did More Housework	w23636
8/1/2017	Market Watch	What happened to birth rates after Texas restricted access to abortion	w23634
8/1/2017	Market Watch	Children in low-income families suffer during the summer without subsidized school food programs	w23633
7/31/2017	Medical Xpress	Exercise incentives do little to spur gym-going, study shows	w23567
7/31/2017	CNBC	Economist: Hire people from the middle-class because 'more of the posh ones are useless'	w22517 or summary
7/31/2017	Houston Chronicle	Study: Texas abortion restrictions boosted birth rates	w23634
7/31/2017	United Press International	Study: Monetary incentive not effective at spurring gym attendance	w23567
7/31/2017	Market Watch	The IRS 'scarecrow' method of getting people to pay taxes actually works	w23631
7/31/2017	The Hans India	Monetary incentives do little to spur gym-going: Study	w23567
7/28/2017	Investor's Business Daily	Seven Reasons America Should Pursue Energy Dominance	w22914
7/28/2017	The Atlantic	Why Residents of 'Black ZIP Codes' Can't Breathe	w23622
7/27/2017	Atlanta Black Star	Is There a Debate to be Had on the Effectiveness of Raising the Minimum Wage for Black Workers	w23532
7/26/2017	Slate	Why Young Men Might Be Playing Video Games Instead of Going to Work	w23552 or summary
7/26/2017	NBC News	Fulfillment Center Warehouse Jobs Give New Life to Sleepy Towns	w23285 or summary
7/24/2017	Financial Times	Weak global inflation is a mystery investors must unlock	w23396 or summary
7/24/2017	The New York Times	Which Metrics on Hospital Quality Should Patients Pay Attention To?	w23166
7/24/2017	The Washington Post	It's not just banks anymore. Democrats want to break up all kinds of big business.	w23583
7/24/2017	The New York Times	The Company Behind Many Surprise Emergency Room Bills	w23623 or summary
7/23/2017	Forbes	94% Of New Jobs Created Share This One Trait -- Are You Prepared?	w22667 or summary
7/21/2017	Los Angeles Times	As Trump wages war on legal marijuana, military veterans side with pot	w21345
7/21/2017	The Washington Post	Researchers have a new theory for why companies are sitting on ungodly piles of cash	w23583
7/19/2017	Bloomberg	Private School Is Becoming Out of Reach for Middle-Class America	w23571
7/19/2017	The Atlantic	How Job Loss Can Lead to Drug Use	w23192 or summary
7/18/2017	Market Watch	Majoring in business can nearly double your earnings potential	w23575
7/18/2017	Inside Higher Ed	Variation in Immigrant Educational Attainment	w23548
7/18/2017	New York Post	If you want to make a lot of money, pick this major	w23575
7/17/2017	Education Week	Class Size Matters	w17632 or summary
7/17/2017	Market Watch	Not even free money can make some people go to the gym	w23567
7/17/2017	Radio Free Asia	China Seeks Solution For High Home Prices
7/13/2017	Forbes	Why Neighborhoods Get Better: Research Provides Insights That May Surprise You	w21778
7/12/2017	Xinhuannet	China's WTO entry benefits US consumers: economists	w23487 or summary
7/11/2017	Chicago City Wire	Summer jobs called beneficial for teens -- if they'll take them	w23443
7/7/2017	Market Watch	This is what older people do when they’re not quite ready to retire	w23551
7/7/2017	Scranton (PA) Times-Tribune	More guns, more crime	w23510
7/7/2017	The Des Moines Register	How robots, AI and automation are shaking up Iowa's workforce. Is your job at risk?	w23285 or summary
7/6/2017	The Washington Post	Bucking a national trend, St. Louis is lowering its minimum wage	w23371 or summary
7/6/2017	The New York Times	Work and Reward: The Great Disconnect	w23371 or summary
7/5/2017	US News & World Report	Are Better Video Games Killing Men's Desire to Work?	w23552 or summary
7/3/2017	The New York Times	Why Some Men Don’t Work: Video Games Have Gotten Really Good	w23552 or summary
7/3/2017	Market Watch	Here’s one really weird theory why so many young men aren’t working	w23552 or summary
7/3/2017	USA Today	Who pays when someone without insurance shows up in the ER?	w22288
6/29/2017	The Gainesville Sun	Dave Denslow: Democrats should let gun battle go	w23510
6/29/2017	Newsweek	Guns Make Us Safe? NRA Theory Debunked in New Stanford Analysis	w23510
6/27/2017	Atlanta Black Star	Lead Astray: New Evidence Links Children with Higher Lead Exposure to School Suspensions and Juvenile Detention	w23392 or summary
6/21/2017	The Atlantic	To Reduce Urban Inequality, Reconsider Unions	w23516
6/21/2017	US News & World Report	White House Pressures State Department Over Refugee Costs: Sources	w23498 or summary
6/20/2017	Institutional Investor	Brokers May Be Giving Away Investors' Best Ideas	w23522
6/19/2017	The Fiscal Times	Do Right-to-Carry States Really Have Less Violent Crime?	w23510
6/19/2017	Market Watch	Bob Barker is one of millions of older Americans who fall — but he’s lucky	w23517
6/15/2017	The Washington Post	It’s time to stop blaming poor people for the financial crisis	w23502
6/14/2017	Market Watch	Consider this career move if you want to climb the corporate ladder	w23485
6/14/2017	FiveThirtyEight	Refugees May Be Good For The Economy	w23498 or summary
6/13/2017	The Washington Post	These researchers just debunked an all-too-common belief about refugees	w23498 or summary
6/12/2017	Houston Chronicles	Chinese imports killed jobs — but also lowered prices	w23487 or summary
6/11/2017	Wall Street Journal	Roth vs. Traditional 401(k): Study Finds a Clear Winner	w20738
6/9/2017	Investor's Business Daily	Universal Basic Idiocy	w23285 or summary
6/9/2017	The American Prospect	School Suspensions, Test Scores, and Lead Poisoning	w23392 or summary
6/6/2017	New Republic	How Medical Bills Harm Us All	w21632 or summary
6/5/2017	Barron's	Study: Stock Avoidance Is Hardwired	w23438
6/5/2017	Market Watch	Investors would rather feel good about themselves than make money	w23438
5/31/2017	Reuters	More daughters, more money - Harvard tips for venture capitalists	w23454 or summary
5/30/2017	The Wall Street Journal	Gender Wage Gap Widens ‘Considerably’ During First Two Decades of Work Life	w23381 or summary
5/25/2017	The Atlantic	Why Expanding Access to Childcare Isn't Enough	w23412
5/23/2017	Market Watch	Straight-shooting execs on earnings calls boost trading volume for their stocks	w23425
5/21/2017	The Miami Herald	Deportations, lack of visas will hurt our economy. Find ways to protect your business	w22834
5/19/2017	Deseret News	Greg Bell: Are Utahns' wages increasing to reflect low unemployment?	w23371 or summary
5/16/2017	Bloomberg	Rich Retirees Are Hoarding Cash Out of Fear	w23371 or summary
5/13/2017	Minneapolis StarTribune	U economist says manufacturing jobs aren't coming back	w23371 or summary
5/13/2017	The New York Times	The Gender Pay Gap Is Largely Because of Motherhood	w23381 or summary
5/10/2017	The Washington Post	An obvious way to fight the opioid epidemic — and make doctors’ lives easier	w23148 or summary
5/9/2017	Bloomberg	Visiting the White House Can Boost Your Stock Price. So Who’s Visiting Trump?	w23356
5/8/2017	The Washington Post	Researchers have answered a big question about the decline of the middle class	w23371 or summary
5/8/2017	U.S. News & World Report	Study: Globalization Has Boosted Income Inequality	w23384
5/8/2017	Market Watch	Why the first 20 years of a career are most important for women	w23381 or summary
5/3/2017	The Washington Post	Scientists just debunked one of the biggest arguments against fuel economy standards for cars	w23340
5/2/2017	Marketwatch	An inside look at the opaque and frustrating pricing system at private colleges	w23360
5/2/2017	The Washington Post	Women won’t save us from violence	w23337 & w23729 or summary
4/27/2017	The New York Times	Black People Are Not All ‘Living in Hell’	w22797 or summary
4/25/2017	Market Watch	These students lack enough data to make informed choices about their major	w23333
4/25/2017	Independent	Rich People Live Longer than the Poor and Take More from Taxpayers	w23329
4/20/2017	The New York Times	How Child Care Enriches Mothers, and Especially the Sons They Raise	w22993
4/20/2017	The Economist	Political polarisation has grown most among the old	w22452 or summary & w23258
4/20/2017	The Economist	Political polarisation has grown most among the old	w23258
4/19/2017	Pacific Standard	Trump Takes Aim at the H-1B Visa Program	w23153 or summary
4/19/2017	Fortune	Why Today’s Retirement Savers Face A ‘Longevity Gap’	w23329
4/18/2017	Market Watch	These 10 skills you need to earn higher wages may surprise you	w23328
4/18/2017	CNS News	US Economic Growth May Be Stronger Than We Think	w23221
4/13/2017	The New York Times	Social Media Is Not Contributing Significantly to Political Polarization, Paper Says	w23258
4/11/2017	The Wall Street Journal	Should Medicaid Be Converted to a Block-Grant Program?	w21308 or summary
4/10/2017	South China Morning Post	How Chinese student boom has kept US public universities afloat, and why Trump’s America First stance might affect that	w22981 or summary
4/6/2017	Bloomberg	Perfectly Nice Policies, With Less-Nice Side Effects	w23174 or summary
4/5/2017	Bloomberg	Jamie Dimon Forgot to Mention Mergers Are Part of the Problem	w21181 or summary
4/4/2017	Los Angeles Times	Pay gap between men and women in California is nearly $79 billion a year	w21913
4/4/2017	The Columbus Dispatch	The E-Team: Researchers say Pre-K kids get earlier notice of health problems	w23297
3/31/2017	The Washington Post	Trump to target trade abuses with executive orders	w21906 & w23285 or summary
3/30/2017	The Washington Post	We’re so unprepared for the robot apocalypse	w21906 & w23285 or summary
3/30/2017	Fortune	Give Mnuchin a Break	w23285 or summary
3/30/2017	Bloomberg	U.S. College Grads See Slim-to-Nothing Wage Gains Since Recession	w22935
3/29/2017	Market Watch	This kills men's self-esteem at work	w23264
3/29/2017	The New York Times	Evidence That Robots Are Winning the Race for American Jobs	w23285 or summary
3/29/2017	The New York Times	Is Obamacare a Lifesaver?	w23269 or summary
3/29/2017	Vox	Study: social media bubbles might not be making us more polarized after all	w23258
3/28/2017	Market Watch	This kills men’s self-esteem at work	w23264
3/28/2017	The Christian Science Monitor	Why a 94-year-old McDonald's employee is celebrating 44 years on the job	w22607
3/27/2017	Inside Higher Ed	Hometown Connections and Chinese Favoritism	w23130
3/27/2017	US News & World Rport	Robots Have Been Taking American Jobs	w23285 or summary
3/21/2017	The Atlantic	How Universal Child Care Affects Boys vs. Girls	w21571 & w23259
3/21/2017	Market Watch	The unlikely tool that helps the poor save...	w23252
3/21/2017	Barron's	Women Punished Harder for Misconduct	w23242 or summary
3/17/2017	The Atlantic	Sesame Street Isn’t Just for Affluent Kids	w21229
3/15/2017	Money	5 Surprising Industries Vulnerable to Trump's Deportation Plan	w22834
3/14/2017	US News & World Report	Reagan's Chief Economist The U.S. Is Already Great	w23221
3/14/2017	Market Watch	The earnings of undocumented immigrants soared during the Obama years	w23236
3/9/2017	The Washington Post	Trade with China might have ruined your love life	w23173
3/7/2017	Chicago Business	What Trump's immigration policies could cost Chicago	w22834
3/7/2017	The Atlantic	How To Get Detroit Back On Its Feet	w23146
2/28/2017	Daily Mail	Are Chinese imports making it harder for American men to get married?	w23173
2/28/2017	The Washington Post	Attorney General Sessions wants to know the science on marijuana and opioids	w20835 & w21345
2/28/2017	The Seattle Times	Men at work: a marked decline in the economy	w23173
2/27/2017	U.S. News	Opioid Deaths Rise With Unemployment	w23192 or summary
2/27/2017	Vox	If we want to save people from opioid overdoses, a new study shows naloxone works	w23171
2/25/2017	The Economist	Why taxing robots is not a good idea	w23108
2/24/2017	Fox News	Trump's Jobs Plan Could Lead to Marriage Boom	w23173
2/22/2017	Bloomberg	Trump Deportation Threats to Constrict Already-Tight Job Market	w22834
2/20/2017	Star Tribune	Could mandatory database curb opioid abuse?	w23148 or summary
2/17/2017	News India Times	H-1B visa workers from 1994-2001 helped US innovation: NBER research paper	w23153 or summary
2/16/2017	The Economist	A new paper finds China more unequal than France but less so than America	w23119
2/15/2017	Slate	Obamacare Saved Marriages From "Medical Divorce"	w23139
2/15/2017	Fortune	Why H-1B Visas Aren't So Great for Silicon Valley Workers	w23153 or summary
2/14/2017	Milwaukee Journal Sentinel	Vouchers kept Milwaukee Catholic parishes open, but at a cost to religious activity	w23159
2/14/2017	Bloomberg	How High-Skilled Immigrants May Hurt Workers and Help Consumers	w23153 or summary
2/13/2017	CBS News	U.S. vs. China: Whose income inequality is worse?	w23119
2/11/2017	The New York Times	More Women in Their 60s and 70s Are Having 'Way Too Much Fun' to Retire	w22606 & w22607 & w22913
2/11/2017	The New York Times	More Women in Their 60s and 70s Are Having 'Way Too Much Fun' to Retire	w22606 & w22607 & w22913
2/7/2017	The Atlantic	One Reason Workers Are Struggling Are Cities Too Small or Too Big?	w22823
2/6/2017	Inside Higher Ed	New Study on Immigrants and America Innovation	w23137 or summary
2/6/2017	Market Watch	Why low-income borrowers should avoid for-profit colleges	w23118
2/6/2017	Fortune	These Economists Just Proved Why Donald Trump's Wall Won't Help U.S. Workers	w22792
2/5/2017	The Wall Street Journal	It'll Take More Than a Band-Aid to Fix Medicaid	w21031 or summary & w21308 or summary
2/3/2017	Bloomberg	'Superstar' Companies Are Eating Into Workers' Wealth	w23108
2/1/2017	The Atlantic	One Reason Workers Are Struggling Even When Companies Are Doing Well	w23108
2/1/2017	Bloomberg	It's Getting Harder to Keep the Barbarians at the Gate—and It's This Guy's Job	w22707
1/31/2017	Latinos Health	Age Cap Boosts Pregnant Teens Using e-Cigarettes	w22792
1/31/2017	The Wall Street Journal	How Kids Displaced Dads as Rulers of the Household	w23087
1/31/2017	The Atlantic	How Trump Threatens America's Talent Edge	w22926
1/30/2017	Newsweek	Trump's Immigration Order Is a Major Blow to American Universities	w22623 or summary
1/30/2017	The Wall Street Journal	Why Your Business Should Ditch Cash	w19996 or summary
1/24/2017	The Wall Street Journal	Why Young Women Play Down Their Career Goals Around Men	w23043 or summary
1/24/2017	The Wall Street Journal	A Challenge to the 'Secular Stagnation' Theory	w23077
1/23/2017	The New York Times	Blame Technology, Not Longer Life Spans, for Health Spending Increases	w22306 or summary
1/23/2017	The Washington Post	Why you'll never live up to your older sibling's accomplishments	w19542 or summary & w23038
1/23/2017	Bloomberg	The U.K.'s Threat to Weaponize Tax Is No Bluff	w20753
1/22/2017	Forbes	Power Markets Are Better For Consumers Than Traditional Alernative	w23053 or summary
1/20/2017	Houston Chronicle	How we should judge Trump's economic performance	w20324
1/16/2017	PBS Newshour	Do ride-sharing apps discriminate against black customers?	w22776 or summary
1/16/2017	The Washington Post	Why these economists say the usual explanation for the financial crisis is wrong	w22985
1/14/2017	Detroit Free Press	Can school vouchers give kids a shot at a better education?	w21523
1/13/2017	The Washington Post	Is a college degree the new high school diploma? Here's why your degree's worth is stagnant.	w22935
1/13/2017	PBS Newshour	Do organizations raise more money by offering small gifts to potential donors?	w22867 or summary
1/12/2017	Scientific American	Trump's Climate Team Accept Any "Social Cost of Carbon"?	w22795
1/11/2017	The Daily Caller	How One Pain Pill Sparked A Three-Fold Increase In Heroin Deaths	w23031
1/10/2017	The Washington Post	How an ‘abuse-deterrent’ drug created the heroin epidemic	w23031
1/6/2017	The Washington Post	Minimum wage: a sonnet	w12663 & w22089
1/6/2017	Australian Finanicial Review	In the US Earnings Mobility Is Falling and Income Inequality Is Rising	w22910
1/4/2017	The Christian Science Monitor	Why are Chicago homeowners leaving money on the table?	w18514
1/4/2017	Education Week	Discrimination in Gifted Education Must End	w21519 or summary & w22981 or summary
1/3/2017	Inside Higher Ed	State Shortfalls and Foreign Students	w22981 or summary

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