Marjon Blondeel, AI R&D developer, looks at a robot equipped with artificial Intelligence at the AI Xperience Center at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Brussels, Belgium, on February 19, 2020… | Continue reading
U.S. fertility rates are likely to be considerably below replacement levels for the foreseeable future according to new analysis by Melissa Kearney and Phil Levine. | Continue reading
With little time to waste, the U.S. must begin testing and scaling policy levers than enable a more resilient approach to regional development. | Continue reading
Matthew Collin uses account data leaked from an Isle of Man bank to investigate the characteristics of individuals and firms that store their money in tax havens. | Continue reading
Trump’s FCC favored appearances over long-term gains in broadband accessibility. Build Back Better with contract vetting and realistic maps, says Tom Wheeler in his FCC series. | Continue reading
Mwangi Kimenyi and John Mukum Mbaku discuss the limitations of the newly signed "Nile Agreement," and efforts to establish equitable, fair, and reasonable allocation and utilization of the waters of the Nile River. | Continue reading
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (BPEA) paper argues that behavior importantly shaped the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, suggesting lessons for mitigating the impact of future infectious disease outbreaks. | Continue reading
Homi Kharas, Kristofer Hamel, and Martin Hofer highlight two new storylines that depict what is happening to global extreme poverty. | Continue reading
In Foresight Africa 2021, experts capture the top priorities for the region in the coming year, offering recommendations for African and global stakeholders for creating and supporting a strong, sustainable, and successful Africa. | Continue reading
The national-security implications of China’s interest in space-based quantum communications cuts several ways, posing a threat to U.S. intelligence capabilities but also raising the possibil… | Continue reading
Evaluating equity in the STEM pipeline. | Continue reading
This economic rift that persists in dividing the nation is a problem because it underscores the near-certainty of both continued clashes between the political parties and continued alienation and misunderstandings. | Continue reading
Sarah Allen, James Grimmelmann, Ari Juels, and Eswar Prasad examine the risks and benefits of central bank digital currency and review design choices. | Continue reading
This blog summarizes five facts about student loans drawn from a public event, "Student loans: A look at the evidence" hosted by the Hutchins Center at Brookings on October 7, 2019. | Continue reading
Cameron Kerry and Caitlin Chin describe how the 117th Congress might respond to new privacy protections passed by California voters. | Continue reading
This economic rift that persists in dividing the nation is a problem because it underscores the near-certainty of both continued clashes between the political parties and continued alienation and misunderstandings. | Continue reading
Americans are in general more worried about the prospects for boys than for girls, and for their own sons more than their own daughters, according to new data from the American Family Survey. | Continue reading
The COVID-19 pandemic and associated economic shutdown have led to a severe recession. From March to April 2020, the share of the civilian population in the labor force fell to the lowest level in … | Continue reading
Free and open-source software underpins the digital world. Federal funding should prioritize its development and maintenance. | Continue reading
Taiwan has gotten a lot of well-deserved attention for its COVID-19 response, but the seeds of its success were sown long before the pandemic outbreak. What the U.S. needs to develop now is not just “herd immunity” but what Taiwan’s Minister Audrey Tang calls “nerd immunity.” | Continue reading
That Chinese President Xi Jinping has now decided to end the Hong Kong charade once and for all has ominous implications for Taiwan, writes Robert Kagan. Is the United States prepared to go beyond statements and sanctions? | Continue reading
A groundbreaking account of the rise of North Korea’s dictator Kim Jong Un—from his nuclear ambitions to his summits with President Donald J. Trump—by a former CIA analyst considered one of the leading American experts on the North Korean ruler inside and outside the U.S. governm … | Continue reading
John Villasenor warns about the vulnerabilities of businesses and schools using one videoconferencing platform during the COVID-19 pandemic. | Continue reading
Bernanke and Yellen testified before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis in hearing, “Former Federal Reserve Chairs on Responding to Our Nation’s Economic Crisis”. | Continue reading
Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines are rare and valuable. Strict export controls should be imposed to keep these machines in the hands of democracies. | Continue reading
Rabah Arezki and Yang Liu examine emerging markets as a source of spillovers. | Continue reading
Ron Haskins explains research indicating that young people should fulfill three major responsibilities to substantially improve their chances of avoiding poverty and entering the middle class: at least finish high school, get a full-time job and wait until age 21 to get married a … | Continue reading
Robert Shapiro writes that the relatively sunny unemployment numbers from May might be leaving out a few groups of people: those on furlough, those whose employers received Paycheck Protection Program funds, and those who have left the labor force. | Continue reading
In this blog post, Lauren Bauer documents new evidence from two nationally representative surveys that were initiated to provide up-to-date estimates of the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, including the incidence of food insecurity. | Continue reading
In light of social distancing, content moderation has increasingly been carried out by algorithms. So far the strategy has been relatively successful, but it is also exposing blindspots and resulti… | Continue reading
Although Apple and Google’s proposals for voluntary, anonymous contact tracing apps have been well received by some, they will likely serve as vehicles for abuse, disinformation, and a false sense … | Continue reading
Grant Tudor and Justin Warner point to the critical gap in tech knowledge on the Hill and write that Congress should bring back the Office of Technology Assessment to work closely with members of all levels on how tech expertise should inform policymaking. | Continue reading
This brief captures COVID-19’s rapid impact on the food and beverage industry through interviews and data analysis. | Continue reading
Don’t overestimate the power of AI to fight COVID-19. | Continue reading
From left: Lisa Harris, Amber Stevens, Matt Milzman, and Courtney Meadows As worried Americans pack supermarket aisles in anticipation of quarantines and shelter-in-place orders, grocery workers li… | Continue reading
A look at the geography of highly exposed industries makes clear: the economic toll of any coming recession will hit different regions in uneven ways. | Continue reading
Economists have been systematically biased in our approach to public policy, focusing on one set of results from economic theory—on the power of markets—while ignoring that same theory on the conditions under which markets fail. | Continue reading
Warwick McKibbin answers questions about the economic effects of the COVID-19 virus under seven scenarios. | Continue reading
DURING THE 1980s, a number of unusual financial crises occurred. In Chile, for example, the financial sector collapsed, leaving the government with responsibility for extensive foreign debts. In the United States, large numbers of government-insured savings and loans became insol … | Continue reading
The Problem The future fiscal and economic health of the United States depends on the federal government’s ability to increase revenues above their current, historically low rate. Tax policies used… | Continue reading
How much deregulation is happening under the Trump administration? This tracker helps you monitor a selection of delayed, repealed, and new rules, notable guidance and policy revocations, and important court battles across nine major categories, including energy, health, labor, a … | Continue reading