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Organization and Performance of US Health Systems - David Cutler and Nancy Beaulieu
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A growing fraction of US medical care is delivered through integrated healthcare systems that include many medical...
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Hannes Schwandt Discusses Income and COVID 19's Impact on Life Expectancy
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The COVID-19 pandemic has affected different subgroups of the population, based on race, ethnicity, and income, in...
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Whitelashing: Black Politicians, Taxes, and Violence - Trevon Logan
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In recognition of Black History Month, Research Associate Trevon Logan of The Ohio State University, who directs the...

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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 Summer Institute Methods Lectures: Empirical Bayes Methods, Theory and Application
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Large data sets that include observations on many workers at a given firm, multiple decisions by individual judges,...
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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...