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Geographic Dispersion in U.S. Employment
In the U.S., 112 of more than 3,000 counties accounted for 50% of employment in 2020.
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Long-Term Trends in Gasoline Prices
Average annual CPI inflation from 1990 to 2021 was 2.4%, while average annual gasoline price inflation was 3.9%.
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How the Death Rate Affects the Aging of the US Population
What is the effect of death rates on the increased average age of the US population?
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Working from Home: More Americans Are Telecommuting
Americans who primarily work from home represented 3% of full-time employees in 2017, up from 0.7% in 1980.
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Anecdotal Evidence Suggests State Capacity Unrelated to COVID-19 Spread
The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored many societal issues, including the capacity of different world governments to contain the virus’ spread.
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How to Jump-Start Industrialization in Sub-Saharan Africa
Most sub-Saharan nations are poor and a long way from full-scale industrialization. However, certain policies could help spur their economic development.
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Employment Effects of Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Benefits: Incentives Matter
The employment effects of halting programs that granted emergency unemployment benefits during the pandemic were substantial and differed across age groups.
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World Population: What Helps Explain the Explosion?
A steep decline in India’s death rate from 1950 to 2019 substantially affected the size of the global population and reduced that nation’s median age relative to the U.S.
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Who’s Driving a Recent Decline in Life Expectancy?
Life expectancy in the U.S. and most other G-7 nations declined from 2019 to 2021. For the U.S., it was the biggest two-year drop since the early 1920s.
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Increasing Employment by Halting Pandemic Unemployment Benefits
In mid-2021, 26 states halted participation in all or some federal emergency unemployment benefits (EUB) programs before those programs' federal funding lapsed. This article uses this asynchronous EUB cessation between early- and late-halting states to estimate the causal impact of benefit cessation on employment. We find that cessation increased employment by 29 persons for every 100 (pre-halt) EUB recipients. Expressed as a number of jobs, if all states had halted EUB in June, September employment would have been 3.4 million persons higher relative to a no-halt counterfactual. Late-halting ...