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Promoting Vaccine Take-up among Minority Populations
Marcella Alsan Analyzes Promoting Vaccine Take-up among Minority Populations
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Widespread vaccination is a critical tool in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Achieving this goal requires not just...
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Nick Bloom Describes Findings of Why Working from Home Will Stick
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, more than one third of all employees shifted from in-person to remote work. The share is...
The Economics of Vaccine Development and Distribution
Michael Kremer Describes the Economics of Vaccine Development and Distribution
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Vaccines that protect against SARS-CoV-2 are a critical element in the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In a...

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2022, 14th Annual Feldstein Lecture, Gita Gopinath, "Managing a Turn in the Global Financial Cycle"
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Gita Gopinath, the first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund, delivered the 2022 Martin...
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2022 Methods Lecture, Jiaying Gu, "Empirical Bayes Theory and Applications"
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Large data sets that include observations on many workers at a given firm, multiple decisions by individual judges,...
Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond, and Philip Dybvig
2022 Nobel Prize Celebrates Banking Research
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Former NBER research associate Ben Bernanke, current research associate Douglas Diamond, and Philip Dybvig have been awarded the 2022 Nobel Memorial...