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A Social Insurance Perspective on Pandemic Fiscal Policy: Implications for Unemployment Insurance and Hazard Pay

[Symposium: Macro Policy in the Pandemic]

By Christina D. Romer and David H. Romer

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2022

This paper considers fiscal policy during the pandemic through the lens of optimal social insurance. We develop a simple framework to analyze how government taxes and transfers could mimic the insurance that people would like to have had against pandemi...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.36.2.3

The $800 Billion Paycheck Protection Program: Where Did the Money Go and Why Did It Go There?

[Symposium: Macro Policy in the Pandemic]

By David Autor, David Cho, Leland D. Crane, Mita Goldar, Byron Lutz, Joshua Montes, William B. Peterman, David Ratner, Daniel Villar, and Ahu Yildirmaz

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2022

The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) provided small businesses with roughly $800 billion dollars in uncollateralized, low-interest loans during the pandemic, almost all of which will be forgiven. With 94 percent of small businesses ultimately receiving...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.36.2.55

American Enslavement and the Recovery of Black Economic History

[Symposium: Economics of Slavery]

By Trevon D. Logan

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2022

This paper reconsiders the evidence needed to answer pressing questions of economic history and racial inequality, the Third Phase of research on American Enslavement and its Aftermath. First, I briefly summarize how economists have sought to understand s...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.36.2.81

The Cumulative Costs of Racism and the Bill for Black Reparations

[Symposium: Economics of Slavery]

By William Darity Jr., A. Kirsten Mullen, and Marvin Slaughter

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2022

Two major procedures for establishing the monetary value of a plan for reparations for Black American descendants of US slavery are considered in this paper: 1) Enumeration of atrocities and assignment of a dollar value to each as a prelude to adding up...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.36.2.99

Big debt, childhood interventions, and COVID-19 in developing countries

[News]

April 07, 2022

Reading recommendations from Timothy Taylor, managing editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives.

www.aeaweb.org/journals/jep/recommendations-for-further-reading/spring-2022

AEA congratulates Lisa Cook on being named a governor at the Federal Reserve

[News]

May 13, 2022

Lisa Cook becomes the first Black woman appointed to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve.

www.aeaweb.org/news/cook-confirmed-fed-reserve-gov

Breaking through restrictive attitudes

[Research Highlight]

March 30, 2022

Can a school-based program have a meaningful impact on gender inequality?

www.aeaweb.org/research/india-breakthrough-gender-inequality

Reshaping Adolescents' Gender Attitudes: Evidence from a School-Based Experiment in India

By Diva Dhar, Tarun Jain, and Seema Jayachandran

American Economic Review, March 2022

This paper evaluates an intervention in India that engaged adolescent girls and boys in classroom discussions about gender equality for two years, aiming to reduce their support for societal norms that restrict women's and girls' opportunities. Using a ra...

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20201112