Dr. Yelowitz's op-ed in the Wall Street Journal based on joint research with Dr. Courtemanche.
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Curious about the impact on menu labeling laws? Check out what Dr. Yelowitz says about this law in the CQ Researcher.
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Dr. Fackler's letter to the Wall Street Journal on SAT Equality:
Drs. Facker and McMillin present evidence that a path target for NGDP may be preferable to a path target for the price level. In addition, they also find that the NGDP path target would have been superior to a continuation of the implicit FIT policy pursued by the Fed before and after the Great Recession.
May 9: Professors Yelowitz and Troske's work on IRAs was cited in Reading Eagle. Read the letter to the editor by Professor Yelowitz here.
The Council of Economic Advisers recently released a study on deregulating health insurance markets which cites a 2017 study on the Affordable Care Act by Charles Courtemanche and Aaron Yelowitz in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
This report examines the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NEAP) test scores for Kentucky students for the roughly 25-year time span from the 1990s forward, as well as changes in funding (inclusive of state, local, and federal) of K-12 in the Commonwealth during that period. Changes in the racial gap in test scores are also examined, along with the gap between the scores of students from low-income families and students from other families.
California is one of five states that has implemented automatic, state-run individual retirement accounts, known as “auto-IRAs,” in recent years. California’s workers—many of whom aren’t adequately preparing for retirement—should absolutely be saving more, and on paper, auto-IRAs move in that direction. But that doesn’t mean all of those workers are coming out ahead.
Is the Medicaid work requirement to blame for people losing their healthcare? Dr. Yelowitz told MedPage Today that this report draws some unfounded conclusions.
Dr. Garen's column, “Civility Is Good But Politics Sparks Rancor”, was published on the Foundation for Economic Education site on Monday, December 10th. Read the entire article here.