Sam Lawrence is fascinated learning about how economists study the impacts of safety net programs designed to lift people out of poverty.In a class last year with Marianne Page, a professor of ...

One possible reason for these differences is that distinct disciplines are trained to notice different things. Like photographers, we tend to focus on what our field puts in the frame. Economists ...

Planet Money went to the annual meeting of the American Economics Association, and we saw some fascinating papers presented there.

U.S. children whose parents divorce when they are age 5 or younger have reduced earnings as adults and increased chances by young adulthood of teen pregnancy, incarceration and death, according to a ...

New research from Stanford University highlights a significant decline in entry-level employment in fields most exposed to artificial intelligence such as software development and customer service.

Utilizing data from Stichting HIV monitoring (SHM) and Statistics Netherlands, a study published in the journal Nature ...

Aidan Toner-Rodgers, 27, sprung to the upper tiers of economics as a graduate student late last year from virtually out of nowhere. While still taking core classes at the Massachusetts Institute of ...

FRANKFURT, Feb 10 (Reuters) - U.S. tariffs are weighing on euro zone growth and inflation but the most affected sectors are ...

In the 1980s, economist Robert Solow made an observation that reminded economists of today’s AI boom: “You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.” ...