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The June 2022 bi-annual Berkeley Economics newsletter is out! Read news and articles from the Department of Economics. Read more
Mothers as Insurance: Family Spillovers in WIC. New study co-authored by Professor of Public Policy and Economics Hilary Hoynes shows low-income moms' nutrition suffers when kids age out of WIC at 5y. Among adult women caloric intake falls and food insecurity increases, suggesting that mothers protect children by consuming less themselves. Read the paper
Poorer children show cognitive fatigue faster than richer ones, and attend schools that give fewer chances to build attentional capacity. But this can be improved with simple changes at school – as shown in a new Cognitive Endurance paper cu-authored by Berkeley Economics Professor Supreet Kaur. Read more
The Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) awards the Paris Symposium prize to Quantedge Presidential Professor of Economics Yuriy Gorodnichenko for Rapid Response to a policy Issue: "Prof. Gorodnichenko has been the driving force behind the recent 'Blueprint for the Reconstruction of Ukraine' book." Read the piece co-authored, among others, by Berkeley Economics George C. Pardee & Helen N. Pardee Chair and Distinguished Professor of Economics and Political Science.
In a new column, Pascal Michaillat and Emmanuel Saez propose a simple rule to assess whether the economy, or more precisely the labor market, is too tight or too slack: are there more job openings than there are unemployed? Read more
Director of the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Wealth and Income Inequality Gabriel Zucman and Professor Emmanuel Saez launch Realtime Equality, a new website that provides real-time decompositions of GDP growth by social group. The underlying paper is available here.