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Search News Oct 23 2017 Booms & Busts: How the 1980s Could’ve Predicted the Great Recession Many argue the Great Recession could have been ameliorated through strategic policies, but the government ignored warning signs of coming… News Oct 11 2017 Boost in Collateral, Rather Than “Feeling Richer,” Drives Consumers to Borrow as Home Prices Rise When home prices rise, households tend to borrow and spend more. But economists have had trouble identifying exactly what causes that… News Oct 03 2017 WWS Reacts: Trump’s Tax Proposal President Donald Trump released a nine-page outline of a tax plan last week, which included proposed tax cuts for corporations and… News Oct 02 2017 Balance Forgiveness Programs More Effective at Reducing Credit Card Debt Than Lowering Monthly Minimum Payments According to data recently released by the Federal Reserve, the amount of outstanding debt that Americans hold — often in the form of… News Sep 27 2017 Felten, Krueger Join Rework America Task Force Princeton professors Edward Felten and Alan Krueger will serve on a new task force aimed at transforming America’s labor market to a 21st… News Jul 24 2017 Exposure to Violence Hinders Short-Term Memory, Cognitive Control Being exposed to and actively remembering violent episodes — even those that happened up to a decade before — hinders short-term memory… News Jun 28 2017 Revitalizing Detroit Requires Development of Specific Neighborhoods Despite the relatively large number of employees working in downtown Detroit, the city continues to be afflicted by urban blight,… News Jun 15 2017 Deaton Testifies Before U.S. Senate on America’s Deadly Opioid Epidemic Testifying before a Joint Economic Committee hearing in the U.S. Senate on June 8, Sir Angus Deaton, Dwight D. News May 03 2017 Politics & Polls #42: Where Are All the Jobs? In his campaign promise to make America great again, President Donald Trump vowed to “bring jobs back to America” and revitalize the… News Apr 28 2017 WWS Reacts: Trump’s Tax Cut Plan President Donald Trump announced an outline of his new tax plan this week, proposing sharp reductions in individual and business income… News Apr 13 2017 Trust in Local Community Leads to Better Long-Term Decisions Among the Poor Would you rather receive $100 today or $125 in three months? Recent studies show those at the lowest income levels typically choose the … News Dec 17 2015 WWS Reacts: Looking Back and Forward from the Fed's Rate Increase The Federal Reserve raised interest rates from record lows on Dec. 16, beginning what many expect to be a period of further increases. … News Dec 17 2015 WWS Reacts: Looking Back and Forward from the Fed's Rate Increase The Federal Reserve raised interest rates from record lows on Dec. 16, beginning what many expect to be a period of further increases. … News Dec 09 2015 “Impassioned Debate” Results in Noteworthy Journal While producing the annual Journal of Public and International Affairs (JPIA) is no small task, a review of this year’s 26th edition… News Dec 08 2015 Currie Wins Carolyn Shaw Bell Award Janet M. News Dec 07 2015 More Aggressive Climate Policies Are Needed to Save the Future Poor People often believe that future generations will be better off than their predecessors, but that may be a dangerous assumption when it… News Nov 23 2015 WooCast: Paul Volcker and the Importance of Public Service Paul Volcker has spent most of his professional life in public service. In this WooCast, he discusses the importance of public service,… News Nov 12 2015 Princeton-Fung Global Forum Identifies Approaches for Dealing with 'Modern Plagues' On the verdant campus of University College Dublin, nearly 300 public health experts and practitioners, government officials, scholars… News Oct 14 2015 Rogerson Wins R.K. Cho Economics Prize Richard Rogerson, the Charles and Marie Robertson Professor of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson… News Jul 31 2015 Currie Named Top Female Economist by World Economic Forum In a list of the "Top 10 Female Economists," the World Economic Forum named Professor Janet Currie number four in the world. News Jul 29 2015 Moll Receives EIB Prize for Economic, Social Research Benjamin Moll, an assistant professor of economics and international affairs, has been awarded the 2015 European Investment Bank Prize… News Jul 09 2015 WWS Reacts: What's Next for Greece? Suffocating from colossal debt, Greece has until the end of July 9 to secure a third bailout from creditors. Otherwise, the country may… News Feb 26 2015 Itskhoki Named a 2015 Sloan Research Fellow Oleg Itskhoki, assistant professor of economics at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, was one of five… News Feb 16 2015 How Income Fraud Made the Housing Bubble Worse Historically, Englewood and Garfield Park are two of the poorest neighborhoods in Chicago. Yet, between 2002 and 2005, these… News Feb 03 2015 WWS Task Force: Debt Problem or Funding Safety Net Programs To address long-term debt issues facing the United States, Congress needs to implement significant changes to entitlement programs and…