Just Economics

by Ioana Marinescu, Katherina Rosqueta

In the Just Economics podcast, economist Ioana Marinescu (www.marinescu.eu), associate professor of public policy at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice and research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research explores what we actually know about how policies and labor markets work, including the science behind job creation and unemployment insurance. Each episode introduces the work  ...   ...  Read more

Podcast episodes

  • Season 2

  • Paid Family Leave with Maya Rossin-Slater

    Paid Family Leave with Maya Rossin-Slater

    Maya Rossin-Slater, an economist and professor at the Stanford Department of Health policy, joins Ioana to discuss her paper on the implications of paid family leave policies. You can read her paper here and follow her on Twitter here. Related resources from the Center for High Impact Philanthropy: Early Childhood Donor Toolkit Early School Success Primer Student-producers: Alexandra Lenihan, Tian (Ruby) Lu, Yamei Lu, Yanzhuo Wang, and Yue (Eugenia) Wang. Sound editing by Jiayin Yuan.

  • Housing Affordability with Ingrid Gould Ellen

    Housing Affordability with Ingrid Gould Ellen

    Ioana welcomes housing expert Ingrid Gould Ellen, a professor of urban policy and planning at the Wagner School of New York University and the faculty director for the Furman Center for Real Estate and Policy, to the podcast to discuss her 2020 paper on housing choice vouchers. Read Ingrid’s work: -Main paper discussed: https://furmancenter.org/files/fact-sheets/HousingChoiceVouchers_ige.pdf - Additional paper by Ingrid on housing vouchers and educational outcomes: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/pam.22183. Read more about Pathways to Housing: https://www.impact.upenn.edu/pathways-to-housing-pa/ Student-producers: Ding Guo, Phoebe Price, Alexis Ramos, Mingmei Wang. Sound editing: Jiayin Yuan

  • Why Sectoral Employment Programs Work with Larry Katz

    Why Sectoral Employment Programs Work with Larry Katz

    Larry Katz is an economics professor at Harvard University, and an expert on all things about the labor market. Larry was the chief economist of the US Department of Labor in 1993-1994. He is an editor at the Quarterly Journal of Economics, one of the top academic journals in the field of economics. You can follow him on Twitter @lkatz42. Larry has some recent work (https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/lkatz/files/krhs_sectoral_jole_final.pdf) about the ways in which job training can help less educated workers get better jobs, and we will be discussing the results today. This article is co-authored with Jonathan Roth, Richard Hendra, and Kelsey Schaberg, and is forthcoming in the Journal of Labor Economics, in a special issue in honor of Alan Krueger. This episode was produced by Penn's School of Social Policy & Practice MSSP students: Ding Wu, Jiayin Yuan, Xuli Fan, Yi Yang.

  • Season 1

  • Politics of the Carbon Tax with Adrien Fabre

    Politics of the Carbon Tax with Adrien Fabre

    Due to the pandemic, governments around the world are reflecting on where policy should be going next, and climate change is a key item on the agenda. However, climate policies like the carbon tax increase the price of energy, which can particularly hurt low income people. Economist Adrien Fabre joins Ioana on to discuss his publication with Thomas Douenne investigating the support for the carbon tax among French people shortly after the Yellow Vests protests against gas tax increases. Adrien Fabre is currently a post-doctoral fellow at ETH Zurich, and you can follow him on Twitter at @adrien_fabre. You can read his paper in the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy: https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pol.20200092

  • Political Partisanship and School Desegregation with Eric Chyn

    Political Partisanship and School Desegregation with Eric Chyn

    The US has strong political polarization, which affects policy outcomes. Race is an important dividing line for partisanship. White people are more likely to be Republicans, and Republicans are less likely to support racial integration policies, such as busing or affirmative action. But what if these racial integration policies themselves changed racial attitudes and political partisanship by allowing White people to get to know more Black people? This is the topic of today’s discussion: the impact of busing on political affiliation. Ioana welcomes Eric Chyn to the podcast to discuss this issue. Eric Chyn is an assistant professor of economics at Dartmouth College, and you can follow him on Twitter at @EricChyn. In this episode, Ioana and Eric discuss Eric's co-authored paper with Stephen Billings and Kareem Haggag on the impact of school busing on political affiliation. You can find the paper here: https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aeri.20200336