All Episodes

Ep. 103: When managers try to keep their best workers from moving into other departments

Ep. 102: The economics of sanctioning a petrostate

Ep. 101: Views on the dollar shortage controversy

Ep. 100: Environmental market design

Ep. 99: The wrong side of the tracks

Ep. 98: Delivering clean water

Ep. 97: A short history of Asian immigration

Ep. 96: W. E. B. Du Bois and the history of marginalism

Ep. 95: Diversifying college applications

Ep. 94: Targeted supply-side enforcement in the controlled substance market

Ep. 93: Technological spillovers

Ep. 92: Housing supply skepticism

Ep. 91: Reviewing residential segregation

Ep. 90: Understanding the US net foreign asset position

Ep. 89: Measuring US income inequality

Ep. 88: Understanding international approaches to drug pricing

Ep. 87: The cultural roots of rebellion

Ep. 86: Reexamining air quality regulations

Ep. 85: America's public safety net

Ep. 84: Media salience and polarization

Ep. 83: The returns to industrial policy

Ep. 82: Service quality in the financial advisory industry

Ep. 81: Assessing the Effects of the 2017 Tax Cut and Jobs Act

Ep. 80: Agricultural productivity and chronic disease

Ep. 79: Social organization and redistribution

Ep. 78: Broader economic impacts of the Paycheck Protection Program

Ep. 77: The political power of historical narratives

Ep. 76: The political consequences of NAFTA

Ep. 75: Moral hazard and migration

Ep. 74: The pace of economics publishing

Ep. 73: Improving vaccine messaging

Ep. 72: A textbook bank run

Ep. 71: The roots of US innovation clusters

Ep. 70: Counselors matter

Ep. 69: Testing two theories of the origin of government

Ep. 68: Ending school segregation for Mexican Americans

Ep. 67: Learning the language

Ep. 66: Transitional housing and recidivism

Ep. 65: Economic questions raised by Alzheimer's disease

Ep. 64: Reconceptualizing the path to universal health insurance

Ep. 63: Gender bias in bank lending

Ep. 62: The importance of local activism

Ep. 61: Market design and live events

Ep. 60: Graduate school and mental health

Ep. 59: Mental health therapy in the developing world

Ep. 58: How good is popular financial advice?

Ep. 57: The costs of cultural traditions

Ep. 56: Fundraising Appeals and the Lift/Shift Question

Ep. 55: School bullying, cyberbullying, and remote learning

Ep. 54: Protecting vulnerable kids

Ep. 53: Grade inflation and graduation

Ep. 52: Just what the doctor ordered?

Ep. 51: The returns to an economics degree

Ep. 50: Comparing 911 responses

Ep. 49: The great reset?

Ep. 48: Reframing development in Africa

Ep. 47: Moving on up?

Ep. 46: Money well spent

Ep. 45: Immigration politics

Ep. 44: Inverted outcomes resulting from the Electoral College system

Inoculating adolescents, protecting the public

Ep. 43: The long-run benefits of public preschool

Ep. 42: Reimagining public safety research

Ep. 41: Divergences in life expectancy across US states

Ep. 40: The recovery of Southern wealth after the Civil War

Ep. 39: Deterring crime with DNA databases

Ep. 38: Growth by proximity

Ep. 37: Going from gasoline to electric

Ep. 36: Demagoguery on the airwaves

Ep. 35: Work and childcare during the pandemic

Ep. 34: The politics of tax evasion

Ep. 33: Military handoffs

Bonus: The case for paying college athletes

Ep. 32: How policy shapes culture

Ep. 31: More than a few bad apples

Ep. 30: LGBTQ economics

Ep. 29: Making economic tools more reliable

Ep. 28: The Pros and Cons of Collaboration

Ep. 27: American capitalism and incarceration

Ep. 26: Creating Africa's own Green Revolution

Ep. 25: Why the United States has the best research universities

Ep. 24: Climate change and migration

Ep. 23: How much do local leaders matter?

Ep. 22: Supreme polarization

Bonus: Tech: economists wanted

Ep. 21: The consquences of school choice.

Ep. 20: Rereading The Road to Serfdom

Ep. 19: Social well-being and academic success

Ep. 18: The promise of conditional cash transfers

Ep. 17: Gendered laws

Ep. 16: The anatomy of inequality

Ep. 15: How economists can help combat COVID-19

Bonus episode: How Democrats lost the South

Ep. 14: Importing polarization

Ep. 13: Populism's rise

Ep. 12: Taxing hidden wealth

Ep. 11: Reviving distressed communities

Ep. 10: What helps and hurts minorities' progress in an economics career?

Ep. 9: A century of women's enfranchisement

Ep. 8: Wielding charity for political influence

Ep. 7: Building barriers

Ep. 6: Autocracies in the information age

Bonus episode: The gender gap in economics

Ep. 5: Rethinking racial discrimination

Ep. 4: The persistence of poverty and insecurity