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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?, Milken Institute Review, January 2015 The Youngest Is Hungriest, with R. Pande, New York Times, August 10, 2014
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
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
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?, Milken Institute Review, January 2015
The Youngest Is Hungriest, with R. Pande, New York Times, August 10, 2014