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  • New York Times columns

    • Universal Paternity Leave Needs More Than New Laws for a Push, June 25, 2021

    • Financial Rewards for College Students Could Help Curb the Pandemic, December 29, 2020

    • Social Programs Can Sometimes Turn a Profit for Taxpayers, July 10, 2020

    • How a Raise for Workers Can Be a Win for Everybody, June 18, 2020

    • When a Disappointment Helped Lead to a Nobel Prize, November 29, 2019

    • Founders of Successful Tech Companies Are Mostly Middle-Aged, August 29, 2019

    • Why a Tax the U.S. Hasn't Embraced Has Found Favor in Much of the World, May 17, 2019

    • Unable to Post Bail? You Will Pay for That for Many Years, March 1, 2019

    • Lottery-Like Prizes Coax Savings. What's the Risk in Expanding Them? December 21, 2018

    • Think Positive, Climb Out of Poverty? It Just Might Work, July 13, 2018

    • Using the Airbnb Model to Protect the Environment, December 29, 2017

    • Why Public Health Insurance Could Help, Even If You Don't Want It, September 29, 2017

  • On gender equality and economic development

    • Unwanted: 21 Million Girls, Indian Express, February 24, 2018

    • Economic Development and Gender Equality: Exceptions to the Rule, NBER Reporter, September 2017

    • Does Economic Development Mean Less Discrimination Against Women? If Only It Were That Simple, Milken Institute Review, January 2015

    • The Youngest Is Hungriest, with R. Pande, New York Times, August 10, 2014