Episode 23: How much do local leaders matter?
March 17, 2021
Christian Dippel discusses the Forty-Eighters and their role in the US antislavery movement.
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Episode 22: Supreme polarization
March 03, 2021
University of Chicago law professor Daniel Hemel discusses whether the nation’s highest court is facing a legitimacy crisis and, if so, what to do about it.
Bonus episode: Tech: economists wanted
February 17, 2021
Susan Athey and Michael Luca discuss the mutual influence between economics and the tech sector.
Episode 21: The consequences of school choice
February 03, 2021
Harvard professor Chris Avery discusses how allowing students to leave their neighborhood for their education may undercut policymakers' goals.
Episode 20: Rereading the The Road to Serfdom
January 20, 2021
Bruce Caldwell discusses Friedrich Hayek and the history of economic ideas.
Episode 19: Social well-being and academic success
January 06, 2021
Northwestern’s Kirabo Jackson discusses how schools can help their students by fostering socioemotional development.
Episode 18: The promise of conditional cash transfers
December 23, 2020
Rema Hanna discusses how giving families money affects child development in the long run.
Episode 17: Gendered laws
December 09, 2020
Penny Goldberg discusses how legal gender discrimination affects women’s economic opportunities around the globe.
Episode 16: The anatomy of inequality
November 25, 2020
Florian Hoffman discusses how income disparities have grown in the US and Europe over the last 40 years.
Episode 15: How economists can help combat COVID-19
November 11, 2020
Boston University epidemiologist Eleanor Murray says the tools of economics can help her field better understand the impacts of the disease.