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SIEPR Director Mark Duggan writes in The Hill that the Congressional Budget Office forecasts Social Security will run a deficit of $120 billion this year and if policymakers do not act soon, Social Security will be fully depleted by 2032.
Stanford economist, Nicholas Bloom recommends that managers should decide which days their team should WFH. Read more.
Environmental and Resource Economics Professor, Lawrence Goulder writes in The Hill that "a carbon tax is inherently progressive, narrowing the income gap between rich and poor households.
Based on a new study by Arun Chandrasekhar, Matthew Jackson, and their colleagues: Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham and Samuel Thau, "global problems, from climate change to financial crises to disease control, are hard to address without policy coordination across borders." Read more.
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Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics (SITE)
SITE's purpose is to advance economic science for the benefit of society and to support cutting-edge work of economic theorists within specialized areas of research.
