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Nov 3, 2024 | 
daily.jstor.org | Matthew Wills |Felipe Gonzalez |Felipe González |Guillermo Marshall |Suresh Naidu
The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. Slavery in the United States is usually thought of as a form of coerced labor, especially in agriculture, where the enslaved produced such economically important crops as cotton, rice, and tobacco.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
rooseveltinstitute.org | Ali Bustamante |Hiba Hafiz |Suresh Naidu
IntroductionThe Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) plays a vital role in the United States’ workforce development system, funding programs that provide training, employment, and support services to millions of workers, particularly those facing significant barriers to employment.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
promarket.org | Daron Acemoglu |Suresh Naidu |James Robinson |Pascual Restre
Democracy sees higher GDP due to greater civil liberties, economic reform, increased investment and government capacity, and reduced social conflict. This post originally appeared in VoxDev.org in February 2018. Many analysts view democracy as a neutral or negative factor for growth. In this column, we discuss new evidence showing that democracy has a robust and sizable pro-growth effect.
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
dialnet.unirioja.es | Suresh Naidu
IdiomacatalàDeutschEnglishespañoleuskarafrançaisgalegoitalianoportuguêsromână
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
lpeproject.org | Ilyana Kuziemko |Nicolas Longuet Marx |Suresh Naidu
Early investigations into the rise of neoliberalism tended to emphasize the right-wing, libertarian variant, enshrined philosophically in the Mont Pelerin Society, legally in law-and-economics, and politically by conservatives like Reagan and Thatcher. Recently, however, historians and sociologists have turned their attention to the neoliberal turn within center-left parties.
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Feb 26, 2024 | 
promarket.org | Ilyana Kuziemko |Nicolas Longuet-Marx |Suresh Naidu |Within-District Contributors
In a new paper, Ilyana Kuziemko, Nicolas Longuet-Marx, and Suresh Naidu point to a shift in the Democratic Party’s economic policy, from predistribution to redistribution, as one of the reasons why it has lost less-educated voters. A number of authors and commentators have pointed out that center-left parties throughout the Western democracies have “upskilled” since the 1970s, or replaced their traditional, blue-collar base with an increasingly educated one.
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Dec 7, 2023 | 
equitablegrowth.org | Liz Hipple |Kathryn Zickuhr |Sydnee Caldwell |Suresh Naidu
The Washington Center for Equitable Growth today announced five new members of its Steering Committee. Daron Acemoglu of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Trevon Logan of The Ohio State University, Suresh Naidu of Columbia University, Heidi Williams of Dartmouth College, and Catherine Wolfram of MIT will join the existing members of the Steering Committee to expand Equitable Growth’s network of academic and policy advisors.
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Oct 19, 2023 | 
nber.org | Ilyana Kuziemko |Nicolas Longuet-Marx |Suresh Naidu
Skip to main content We thank our research assistants, Catriona Farquharson, Jessica Fuchs-Shafer, Clément Herman, Madhavi Jha, Alicia Liu, Donato Onorato, Noah Simon, and especially Diva Barisone.We thank Daron Acemoglu, Stephen Ansolabehere, David Autor, Anne Case, Angus Deaton, Lily Geismer, Amory Gethin, Jacob Hacker, Alex Hertel-Fernandez, Shigeo Hirano, Ethan Kaplan, Thomas Piketty, Robert Shapiro, Eric Schickler, Greg Wawro, Gavin Wright, as well as seminar participants at UC Berkeley,...
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Jun 15, 2023 | 
nber.org | Suresh Naidu |Shing-Yi Wang |Yaw Nyarko
Cung Hoang, Imran Idzqandar, Adi Jahic, Simran Kaur, Nitin Krishnan, Sunny Lee, Keren Neza, Abdoulaye Ndiaye, Angela Orozco, Cyril Punnoose-Cherian, Stephanie Wu provided excellent research assistance. We thank IFMR and Lekshman S.P. for their field work. This paper has benefitted from feedback at various stages from Santosh Anagol, Dean Yang and Niha Singh.
