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Evolution and economics: How natural selection helped kick start industrialisation
April 20, 2019 | World Economic Forum | Oded Galor, Marc Klemp
Brown Economics Professor Oded Galor and PSTC Visiting Scholar Marc Klemp discuss their work relating genealogical records to economic growth.
Congestion Pricing: N.Y. Embraced It. Will Other Clogged Cities Follow?
April 7, 2019 | New York Times | Matthew Turner
Brown Economics Professor Matthew Turner provides insight on congestion pricing.
Gender Inequality in China
February 26, 2019 | CSCC Podcasts | Yun Zhou
PSTC Postdoc Yun Zhou discusses gender inequality in China, particularly the implications of the one-child policy and its repeal.
Weedkiller 'raises risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma by 41%'
February 14, 2019 | The Guardian | David Savitz
PSTC epidemiologist David Savitz comments on a new study on the cancer-causing potential of glyphosate herbicides.
Barriers to Black Progress
February 13, 2019 | City Journal | Glenn Loury
PSTC economist Glenn Loury discusses the persistence of racial inequality in the U.S. with Jason Riley at a Manhattan Institute event.
A High-Crime Neighborhood Makes It Harder To Show Up For School
February 13, 2019 | NPR | Julia Burdick-Will (alum)
"Kids who are supposed to be walking along streets with higher rates of violent crime are more likely to miss school," says Julia Burdick-Will, sociologist at Johns Hopkins University and a former PSTC postdoc.
The Biggest Economic Divides Aren’t Regional. They’re Local. (Just Ask Parents.)
February 12, 2019 | New York Times | John Friedman
The NYT cites research by PSTC economist John Friedman, noting neighborhoods explain "most of the geographic variation in upward mobility."
Overcrowded Prisons – Nightmare Nests
February 1, 2019 | The Good Men Project | Anna Aizer
Article cites study by PSTC economist Anna Aizer that finds youth who are imprisoned are less likely to finish school, more likely to offend again.
State and Local Policymaking, Panel 1
January 31, 2019 | C-SPAN | Justine Hastings
PSTC economist Justine Hastings participated in a Brookings Institute forum on evidence-based policymaking.
Trump administration won’t set legal limit for PFAS in drinking water, report says
January 29, 2019 | M Live | David Savitz
EPA advisory limit for PFAS "may not provide a sufficient margin of safety" for drinking water, says PSTC epidemiologist David Savitz.