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Inequality

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Researchers tap AI to identify racial restrictions in millions of property records

SIEPR’s Daniel Ho and fellow researchers trained a large language model that paves the way for faster, more accurate compliance with California’s anti-discrimination law.

October 18, 2024
The USA TODAY Fact Check Team analyzed claims on abortion, immigration, guns, inflation and more. Research by SIEPR's Ran Abramitzky on immigration and crime is cited.

September 11, 2024
“If your networks are doing well, you may think that you can do well, too,” SIEPR's David Grusky tells The New York Times.

July 25, 2024
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Immigrants have had lower incarceration rates than the U.S.-born over a 150-year period, SIEPR's Ran Abramitzky tells the Los Angeles Times.

July 18, 2024
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- Inequality
SIEPR’s Neale Mahoney talks to the Los Angeles Times about L.A. county's new pilot program to erase medical debt, and his research on the effectiveness of such programs.

June 25, 2024
70 years after Brown v. Board of Education, new research shows rise in school segregation

SIEPR Senior Fellow Sean Reardon and researchers at ��ɫApp and USC launch the Segregation Explorer, a website providing data on segregation trends and patterns across the U.S.

May 07, 2024
The recent rise in segregation in schools is due to two specific policy choices, SIEPR Senior Fellow Sean Reardon tells Washington Post.

May 06, 2024
Daniel Ho, Muriel Niederle elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

SIEPR senior fellows Daniel Ho and Muriel Niederle join a distinguished group of members who are recognized for excellence and leadership in work that advances the common good.

April 26, 2024
"Medical debt imposes a crushing burden on millions of Americans," writes SIEPR's Neale Mahoney in an op-ed for The Hill about the surprising — and disappointing — new research.

April 19, 2024
Q&A: Julian Nyarko on why Large Language Models like ChatGPT treat Black- and white-sounding names differently

SIEPR Faculty Fellow Julian Nyarko discusses his latest research using an audit framework to probe for race and gender bias in chatbots.

April 09, 2024
Economic Report of the President draws on work of SIEPR scholars

President Biden’s assessment of the nation’s economic health and groundwork for what’s next relies heavily on academic research, including the work of several SIEPR scholars.

April 03, 2024
Research from SIEPR Senior Fellow Ran Abramitzky analyzing the economic trajectory of immigrants to the United States is featured in "The Morning" from The New York Times.

March 15, 2024
‘Short bursts’ of tutoring improves young readers’ skills in only minutes a day, ��ɫApp study finds

Research by SIEPR's Susanna Loeb and the National Student Support Accelerator shows the potential of a cost-effective tutoring model that can meet students’ varying needs.

March 12, 2024
The fix for US cities

A big city mayor, a top prosecutor and a leading urban economist had a lot to say at the 2024 SIEPR Economic Summit about what ails American cities and how to turn them around.

March 07, 2024
Big ideas, small fixes: Improving US health care

At the 2024 SIEPR Economic Summit, health care experts discussed solutions to a concern that 75 percent Americans share: How to make medical care affordable and accessible.

March 07, 2024
The Fed’s Adriana Kugler: ‘I am cautiously optimistic.’

Federal Reserve governor Adriana Kugler discussed today’s economy, declining wealth inequality and the importance of academic research at the 2024 SIEPR Economic Summit.

March 07, 2024
A new USA Today piece discusses how immigrants have had lower incarceration rates than U.S. born people over the last 150 years. Research by SIEPR's own Ran Abramitzky is cited.

March 01, 2024
Neale Mahoney named director of SIEPR

Mahoney aims to continue the institute’s impact by connecting its scholars and their research with state, national and global policymakers.

March 01, 2024
Immigrants over the last 150 years have had lower incarceration rates than people who were born in the United States. Research by SIEPR's Ran Abramitzky is cited.

February 29, 2024
SIEPR's Goda joins Newsom's economic advisory council

Gopi Shah Goda is the newest member of the administration's Council of Economic Advisors

February 15, 2024