During the height of the COVID pandemic, many people who couldn’t eat out at a restaurant—because of stay-at-home mandates or safety concerns—ordered in instead. The increase in orders for takeout or ...

As Anna Zink embarks on a new journey at Tufts University, we celebrate her groundbreaking work at CAAI in shaping ethical AI for healthcare. Her research has tackled bias in machine learning models, ...

The researchers analyzed how the TCJA’s business tax provisions have performed, with an eye to proposing adjustments that would raise the revenue needed to tame run-away deficits and fund priorities ...

When the pandemic hit and spread in 2020, stock markets in the European Union, Japan, and the United States plummeted up to 30 percent. The implications of the virus for public health, the global ...

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Since the Great Recession, America’s wealthiest 1 percent have been demonized as fat cats who have grown ever richer while the middle class has stagnated. While protesters have called for the 1 ...

The survey measured the incidence of working from home as the pandemic continued, focusing on how a more permanent shift to remote work might affect not only productivity but also overall employee ...

This competition is translating into benefits for US wallets and pocketbooks—and may still be good for companies too. Says Vavra, “We know that people have complex and differentiated tastes and ...

Today’s inflation is transitory, our central bankers assure us. It will go away on its own. But what if it does not? Central banks will have “the tools” to deal with inflation, they tell us. But just ...

Back in 2020, New York Times reporter Kashmir Hill wrote about an experiment she conducted for the news site Gizmodo the year before to see how hard it would be to disconnect from Big Tech—Amazon, ...

Consumer demand is a driving force of economic growth, accounting for about two-thirds of the US economy. So when policymakers want to determine how a particular fiscal or monetary policy will land, ...

Monopsony The inverse of a monopoly, monopsony occurs when a market has a single buyer. Lack of competition from other buyers means the monopsonist can influence prices or other terms of exchange ...