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As part of STEMinism in the Spotlight, a monthly interview series, Amanda Glazer talks with Professor Lisa Goldberg about Lisa's career path and sustained interest in mathematics. Read more
A newly published book by Berkeley Economics professor Jan De Vries, "The Price of Bread: Regulating the Market in the Dutch Republic," explores major developments in early modern European society and how public market regulation affected private economic life. Read more.
Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Ingrid Haegele for becoming a Washington Center for Equitable Growth grantee! Ingrid has been awarded a grant to research potential explanations for gender wage gaps, glass ceilings, and differential labor market returns for women. Her research focuses on inequality in modern labor markets. By combining insights from labor economics with data science tools, she aims to identify policies that can alleviate bottlenecks in women’s career trajectories. Read more
"Generally, we either talk about growth or about inequality, but rarely about the two together," says Professor Gabriel Zucman in an interview with the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. "The distributional national accounts we’re constructing are an attempt at bridging the gap between macroeconomics, on the one hand, and inequality studies on the other hand." Read more
Berkeley Economics professor and former IMF Chief Economist Maury Obstfeld joins a discussion on the Trump administration’s decision to name China a currency manipulator. Listen to the podcast here.
Does electricity really help lift households out of poverty? Berkeley Economics Professor Ted Miguel and fellow researchers set out to answer this question with an experiment, first identifying a sample of ‘under grid’ households in Western Kenya — structures that are located close to but not connected to an electricity grid. Read more
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