Robert Reich is the Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies. He has served in three national administrations, including as Secretary…
Passengers Flying to Singapore Can Use IATA Travel…
An example of the IATA Travel Pass App Singapore will allow passengers traveling to the island state to share pre-departure Covid-19 test results with airlines and immigration staff upon arrival using IATA’s Travel Pass from…
Hong Kong Police Warn Residents to Avoid Red…
Sign up for Next China, a weekly email on where the nation stands now and where it's going next. For Hong Kong residents wondering what sort of behavior might breach the Beijing-imposed national security law,…
Alzheimer’s and the UN’s ‘Decade of Healthy Ageing’
Addressing Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias to realise the promise of the UN’s ‘Decade of Healthy Ageing’ David Bloom, Simiao Chen, Nathaniel Counts, Rachael Han, Sabrina Malik, Arindam Nandi, Benjamin Seligman, Daniel Vigo 26 March…
Minimum legal drinking age and the social gradient…
Alexander Ahammer, Stefan Bauernschuster, Martin Halla, Hannah Lachenmaier 27 March 2021 Europe leads the world in alcohol consumption. According to WHO, more than 10.3 million disability-adjusted life years were lost due to alcohol abuse in…
Reducing rural-urban education gap through computer-assisted learning
Reducing rural-urban education gap through computer-assisted learning: Evidence from China In most countries, there tends to be a large gap between urban and rural education outcomes. This column examines the impact of a 2004 Chinese education…
Firms and labour markets in times of violence
Firms and labour markets in times of violence: Evidence from the Mexican Drug War For the last 13 years, Mexico has been home to a violent conflict known as the Mexican Drug War (Zedillo 2016).…
Regulation and economic growth: A ‘contingent’ relationship
“The American tax code is almost certainly the most complicated in the Western world. The Internal Revenue Service’s taxpayer advocate estimates that in 2008 the direct and indirect costs of complying with that complexity amount…
The declining effectiveness of lockdowns
A growing and diverse literature is emerging on the COVID-19 pandemic’s socioeconomic effects and the efficacy of alternative mitigating policies. A series of empirical studies have provided preliminary findings on the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions…