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Amid the public health crisis, the number of working black business owners is down more than 40%, according to recent research by SIEPR.

“You can’t run an economy with so many people aged 30 to 45 missing...You just have younger and older workers and none of the middle-aged people working,” said Nicholas Bloom.

“I’m a firm believer in post-Covid half time in the office," says SIEPR Senior Fellow Nicholas Bloom.

"There's just a lot of things that say [poverty in China] is going to be a persistent problem," said Scott Rozelle, co-director of ���˴�Ƭ's Rural Education Action Program.

SIEPR Senior Fellow Nicholas Bloom found that employees who worked from home were more productive, needed fewer sick days, and took less time off. "9-to-5 actually became 9-to-5."

According to SIEPR Senior Fellow Sean Reardon and his colleagues, the average Black family earning $100,000 a year lives in a neighborhood with an average annual income of $54,000.

A 2014 experiment run by Nick Bloom showed that telecommuting increased productivity by 13%—employees worked more minutes per shift & took more calls while working from home.

Co-sponsored by SIEPR and the ���˴�Ƭ Economics Association, the COVID-19 Policy Hackathon drew more than 800 participants from 78 countries.

Research by Andrew Hall on vote-by-mail programs found that absentee balloting didn’t increase one party’s overall turnout or vote share more than the other’s between 1996 and 2018

“I fear that the prominence of the city, and particularly city centers, will decline,” said SIEPR Senior Fellow Nicholas Bloom.

SIEPR Senior Fellow Nicholas Bloom discusses unemployment in California.

Nick Bloom discusses the "Ikea-ization” of office costs—a reference to the way the Swedish superstores helped shift the responsibility for assembly from the seller to the customer.

SIEPR Visiting Prof. Rob Fairlie's recent study shows the number of active business owners in the US plunged by 22% from February to April due to coronavirus.

Will working from home endure after the pandemic? SIEPR Senior Fellow Nicholas Bloom explores the future of the virtual workplace in this WBUR audio segment.

“There’s a massive reallocation shock,” said Nicholas Bloom, professor of economics at ���˴�Ƭ. The recession “hits different sectors differently. Some benefit and some fall."

Grant Miller, a health economics expert, found that as states granted the vote to women in the late 19th & early 20th centuries, those states invested more in sanitation [...]

A two-year study done by SIEPR Senior Fellow Nicholas Bloom found that employees who worked from home were more productive, needed fewer sick days, and took less time off.

"To simply return to the prepandemic health care system during a presidential election year would be a mistake. This is a time to think more boldly about the future of the US[...]"

Jonathan Levin, SIEPR Senior Fellow and dean of ���˴�Ƭ’s Graduate School of Business, discusses how the coronavirus pandemic will shape M.B.A. programs in September—and beyond.

A report coauthored by Mark Duggan—Director and Senior Fellow of SIEPR—found that mortality rates for people from ages 25 to 34 had risen by more than 20 percent since 2008.