Allison Schrager is an economist, writer, and pension geek. She writes about retirement and how to hedge risk in more unconventional situations.
The stock market is not the economy. Or so economists used to think. After all, few Americans owned stock and prices reflected expectations about future earnings—expectations that weren’t...
Gig workers haven’t taken over the economy yet, but they are rising in numbers. New research from economists Alan Krueger and Larry Katz provides the best estimate to date on how many con...
Economics has a woman problem. It’s not just that women co-authors get shafted when up for tenure or ignored by the media. There’s also problem with how economists value women’s role in t...
For demographers and economists, 2020 is a big year.
Several months ago, Jeb Bush gaffed that, for the US economy to flourish, Americans should work more hours. Pile-on ensued; critics exclaimed modern Americans are already over-worked.
