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Government-led construction of manufacturing plants in dispersed US locations during WWII led to persistent increases in local manufacturing employment and wages, and increased upward economic mobility among pre-war residents who benefitted from loca...

Increased uncertainty in India around US immigration policies led to firms relocating jobs from the US to India. Increasing rhetoric around restrictive immigration policy may increase offshoring, rather than promote domestic employment.

Nearly 160 years after the end of slavery, significant disparities persist between Black and white Americans. Those whose ancestors were enslaved until the Civil War have less education, income, and wealth than Black families whose ancestors were fr...

Representation in child media matters. Sesame Street’s positive representations of minorities and working women in 1969 had long run impacts on prejudices, influencing people’s propensity to vote for diverse candidates decades later.

The New Deal’s youth employment programme, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), had significant long-run benefits, increasing the lifetime earnings and longevity of its participants, despite having few effects on short-term labour market outcomes.

How should policymakers design environmental markets when they might attract participants who were planning to conserve the environment regardless of the market?

Opportunities for nurses to migrate abroad can increase the supply of educated nurses at home

What was the role of state capacity in the economic development of the US?

How do majority groups react to policy interventions empowering minorities?