Spiking petroleum prices from Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz have infuriated politicians across the US and across the political spectrum.  There is nothing state or local politicians can do…

Johns Hopkins School of Government and Policy advances governance with research, data-driven analysis, and innovative solutions to today’s challenges.

Ph.D. candidate in Economics, University of Minnesota.

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025 was awarded "for having explained innovation-driven economic growth" with one half to Joel Mokyr "for having identified ...

Join us to launch the LSE Green Skills Lab, a new interdisciplinary initiative supported by the LSE Global School of Sustainability that will produce academic research on the labour market dynamics of the green and digital twin transition, the identification of skill gaps in the green transition, and the development and evaluation of industrial policy to achieve a Just Transition.

Many applied microeconomics papers conclude with a back-of-the-envelope calculation that scales their cross-sectional estimates to the aggregate level. These types of aggregate estimates are only vali...

This form collects interest for presentations in the fall season of the Webinar series in Finance and Development (WEFIDEV) for junior scholars working on finance topics in developing countries. We ar...

Shifting rapidly to a low-emissions global economy could severely disrupt workers’ livelihoods and their communities, exacerbating inequalities and perpetuating injustice. In a Just Labor Transition, ...

Capital y Trabajo · Episode

(Forthcoming Article) - Women's labor force participation in the United States rose rapidly until the mid-1990s when it flattened out. I examine the impact of this change in trend on aggregate busines...

(Forthcoming Article) - We build a model to study how the countercyclicality of temporary layoffs affects unemployment, firm entry and exit dynamics, and macroeconomic fluctuations. Calibrating the mo...

Postwar US labour market data reveal a significant secular decline in the employment and wage gaps between men and women. This column quantifies the implications of this shift for the US macroeconomy. Using a time series model that maps empirical trends in data onto underlying structural forces, the authors find that gender-specific labour market trends are responsible for a sizable share of the overall trend increase in GDP and labour productivity in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, as well as the slowdown in GDP growth over the last 20 years.

By using a simple climate model, we can disentangle greenhouse gases, aerosols, and natural forcings.