In honor of the White House Summit on Working Families, Alexandra Mitukiewicz and I released a new paper: Being the parent of young children in the United States today is no easy task. Many have to juggle multiple jobs with unpredictable hours—single-parent and two-income families alike—and whether wealthy or poor, the question of childcare is […]

My latest, up on the Atlantic’s website: It Wasn’t Household Debt That Caused the Great Recession. It was how that debt was disproportionately distributed to America’s most economically fragile communities. Read More: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/house-of-debt/371282/

My post this morning over at the (excellent!) blog, Girl with Pen: Some months ago, I had the opportunity to read the advance copy of Thomas Piketty’s new book Capital in the 21st Century. We’ve all heard a lot about the book since then—I’ve counted 700 pages of reviews (including my own). We’ve heard about […]

Reposting my piece from The Equitablog: Economists are always proving things my Grandmother already knew. Today, we’re learning more about the fact that where you’re born—the “birth lottery”—matters for where you’ll end up in life. A new paper by economists Raj Chetty and Nathaniel Hendren of Harvard University, Patrick Kline and Emmanuel Saez of the […]