U pendin g a decades-long effort to reduce global trade barriers, China and the United States began mutually escalating tariffs on $450 billion in trade flows in 2018 and 2019. These tariff increases reduced trade between the US and China, but little is known about how trade was affected in the rest of the world. In The US-China Trade War and Global Reallocations (NBER …

2020年4月6日 · Figure 2. In Norway, the average time spent in prison is a little over six months, which is similar to most other Western European countries. This contrasts with average US prison time of almost three years, which is in large part the reason the United States is an outlier in its incarceration rate compared with the rest of the world [Figure 1].

After several decades of relatively low and stable inflation, in 2021 the US experienced a sharp rise in the pace of price increases. The annual inflation rate, as measured by the Consumer Price Index, was 1.7 percent in February 2021 but rose to more than 5 percent in June 2021.

The Impact of COVID-19 on Student Experiences and Expectations: Evidence from a Survey Esteban M. Aucejo, Jacob F. French, Maria Paola Ugalde Araya, and Basit Zafar

The NBER’s Business Cycle Dating Committee maintains a chronology of US business cycles. The chronology identifies the months of peaks and troughs of economic activity. Expansions are the periods between a trough and a peak; recessions are the periods between a peak and a trough. By convention ...

The NBER convenes over 120 meetings each year at which researchers share and discuss their latest findings and launch new projects. The Summer Institute, a collection of nearly 50 smaller meetings, is held annually in July.

U.S. Trade Policy in Historical Perspective Douglas A. Irwin NBER Working Paper No. 26256 September 2019 JEL No. F13,N71,N72 ABSTRACT This survey reviews the broad changes in U.S. trade policy over the course of the nation’s history.

In Decarbonizing Heat: The Impact of Heat Pumps and a Time-of-Use Heat Pump Tariff on Energy Demand (NBER Working Paper 33036), researchers Louise Bernard, Andy Hackett, Robert D. Metcalfe, and Andrew Schein study the impact of heat pumps, a low-carbon alternative to gas boilers, on household energy demand.

Unemployment can jeopardize the ability of households to purchase enough food. During the COVID-19 pandemic, when unemployment rose rapidly, 27 percent of households with children reported that they could not always afford enough food.

The researchers acknowledge financial support from the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and from the Clausen Center for International Business and Policy.