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Does gender matter in the fight against Covid-19?
One year into the COVID-19 pandemic, it has become clear that different countries have varying success in fighting the virus and saving...

Swaantje Marten
Feb 5, 2022


Why does investing in early childhood development pay off?
The Carneiro et al (2019) working paper investigates the effect of unconditional monthly transfers and information-based support on early...

Filippos Papasavvas
Feb 5, 2022


Will Covid-19 renew or diminish public trust in science?
Eichengreen et al. (2020) are trying to predict whether the current pandemic will enhance people’s trust in science in the long-run by...

Swaantje Marten
Feb 5, 2022


Do temporary working contracts exacerbate an economic crisis?
The Bentolila et al (2010) paper investigates the different unemployment responses in France and Spain after the Great Recession...

Filippos Papasavvas
Feb 5, 2022


Universal Basic Income or Targeted Income Transfers?
Rema Hanna and Benjamin Olken (2018) explore the trade-offs associated with universal basic income and targeted income transfers as a...

Sandra Loayza Guzman
Feb 5, 2022


Deciphering the Process of Economic Change
North (2003) attempted to solve the puzzle of economic change. According to North, the structure we impose on our lives to reduce...

Nikolas Neos
Feb 5, 2022


Has the stock market become less representative of the economy?
Schlingemann et al (2020) compared the share of employment and GDP attributed to stock market companies in the US in the 1970s and in...

Filippos Papasavvas
Feb 5, 2022


How does the Covid-19 pandemic become a pretext for centralized tech solutionism?
Alondra Nelson and Kate Crawford discuss how the Covid-19 pandemic has served as a pretext for tech companies and governmental...

Katerina Mniestri
Feb 5, 2022


Do women need other women to be successful?
Ever since Muhammad Yunus founded the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh in 1983, microfinance targeting poor women has been the talk of the town...

Swaantje Marten
Feb 5, 2022


Does inequality negatively affect the entire society's work motivation?
Gesiarz et al (2020) carried out three randomised control experiments to investigate the impact of reward inequality on human motivation....

Filippos Papasavvas
Feb 5, 2022


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