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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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The 2021 Martin Feldstein Lecture: The Taxation of Business Income in the Global Economy
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Alan J. Auerbach, the Robert D. Birch Professor of Economics and Law at the University of California, Berkeley, and...
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Joshua Angrist, David Card, and Guido Imbens Awarded Nobel Prize
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Long-time NBER research associates Joshua Angrist, David Card, and Guido Imbens have been awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in recognition of...
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Summer Institute 2021 Methods Lectures: Causal Inference Using Synthetic Controls and Regression Discontinuity Designs
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The credible estimation of causal effects is a central task of applied econometrics. Two tools for this purpose that...