Ep. 100: Environmental market design
Since the 1990s, developers in Florida who want to build on wetlands have been required to buy offset credits from "wetland mitigation banks...
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Ep. 99: The wrong side of the tracks
The place where a child grows up in America shapes their economic future to a significant degree . One long-suspected explanation is racial...
Ep. 98: Delivering clean water
More than two billion people around the world do not have safe drinking water at home. Piped water infrastructure remains out of reach for m...
Ep. 97: A short history of Asian immigration
Asian Americans are the fastest-growing racial group in the United States and are on track to become the largest immigrant group by 2050. Ye...
Ep. 96: W. E. B. Du Bois and the history of marginalism
W. E. B. Du Bois is remembered as a civil rights leader, sociologist, and author of The Souls of Black Folk. But before he became famous for...
Ep. 95: Diversifying college applications
Guidance counselors generally advise college applicants to diversify their applications across schools they believe to be safeties, matches,...
Ep. 94: Targeted supply-side enforcement in the controlled substance market
Between 1997 and 2011, opioid dispensing in the United States more than tripled, fueling what would become the deadliest drug epidemic in Am...
Ep. 93: Technological spillovers
The launch of Sputnik by the Soviet Union in October 1957 led to a geopolitical crisis that reshaped American science policy. Within months,...
Ep. 92: Housing supply skepticism
Most Americans agree that housing costs are too high, often blaming developers and landlords. Many feel that the problem can be solved with...
Ep. 91: Reviewing residential segregation
Despite decades of civil rights legislation, many Black and White Americans, as well as other minorities, continue to live in racially homog...
Ep. 90: Understanding the US net foreign asset position
For decades, the United States enjoyed what some called an exorbitant privilege—the ability to spend more than it earned without accumulatin...
Ep. 89: Measuring US income inequality
US household income has grown significantly, but much of that growth seems to be at the very top of the distribution. Just how much inequali...
Ep. 88: Understanding international approaches to drug pricing
Drug prices have become a hot-button issue in the United States, with politicians across the spectrum agreeing that American consumers pay t...
Ep. 87: The cultural roots of rebellion
Civil conflict has plagued much of Africa, with ethnically diverse countries experiencing particularly high rates of violence. Yet within th...
Ep. 86: Reexamining air quality regulations
The Clean Air Act has been an essential tool for reducing air pollution in the United States. But standard estimation methods may overstate...
Ep. 85: America's public safety net
The patchwork nature of America's public safety net has evolved over centuries, shaped by political winds and changing views on poverty. Und...
Ep. 84: Media salience and polarization
A podcast featuring interviews with economists whose work appears in journals published by the American Economic Association.
Ep. 83: The returns to industrial policy
Between 2006 and 2013, China's government poured enormous resources into its shipbuilding industry through various subsidies—from providing...
Ep. 82: Service quality in the financial advisory industry
A growing number of US households hire advisers to assist with major financial decisions, such as planning life events or making portfolio c...
Ep. 81: Assessing the Effects of the 2017 Tax Cut and Jobs Act
In 2017, then-President Trump signed into law the Tax Cut and Jobs Act, which was arguably the largest corporate tax cut in US history. The...