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Lisa Cook, Michigan State University Economics Professor references Opportunity Insights' Who Becomes an Inventor in America? The Importance of Exposure to Innovation by Alex Bell, Raj Chetty, Xavier Jaravel, Neviana Pet... Read more...
24 September 2019
As part of a larger ongoing study of inequality in America, researchers used patent data to focus on innovation. Among their findings, children from high-income families are 10 times as likely to become invent... Read more...
30 May 2018
One of the researchers, John Van Reenen, a professor of management and economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told this reporter that the study found that the childhood environment was a key f... Read more...
22 January 2018
Trump's efforts to bring work back to the U.S. could eliminate some jobs that are already here. "Altering NAFTA could fundamentally change the production of the economy — for the U.S., as well a... Read more...
16 August 2017
"Altering Nafta could fundamentally change the production of the economy — for the U.S., as well as for Mexico — and that will be very disruptive," said Swati Dhingra, an economist at... Read more...
15 August 2017
The latest concern unfolds this week, as the Trump administration begins to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, redrawing the terms of commerce with Mexico and Canada. “Altering NAFTA co... Read more...
Various analysis have shown that Brexit will adversely affect Britain's economy. According to the Centre for Economic Performance, LSE, Britain's economy will decrease by 1.3 per cent to 2.6 per cent without considering ... Read more...
12 July 2016