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Letter organized by Professor Hilary Hoynes gets signed by 450 economists in support of the Child Tax Credit expansion. Read the Letter here. A recent article by Paul Krugman highlights the research by Professor Hilary Hoynes that supports the policy. Read the article
In a new op-ed for the New York Times, Associate Professor Gabriel Zucman writes that "for working-class Americans who have fallen behind as tax cuts helped the rich get richer, 15 percent is too little, too late." Read the article
Call for applications: Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS) will hold its next Research Transparency and Reproducibility Training (RT2) on 8/23, 8/25, 9/1, and 9/3. RT2 will be hosted online. See the agenda and eligibility requirements and apply here.
Patrick Kline has been selected as the winner of the 2021 IZA Young Labor Economist Award for his research on empirical methodology in labor economics and on the determination of wages. This biennial prize is awarded to outstanding labor economists whose Ph.D. was received fewer than 15 years ago. Read more
In a KQED article on the federal stimulus bill and the temporary expansion of the child tax credit, Professor Hilary Hoynes says that “If [the child tax credit] were to be made permanent, it would be the most important anti-poverty program for children in our history." Read more