Please join us for the third annual conference in the Social and Political Economics series, a joint endeavor of Johns Hopkins University’s Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. The theme of this year’s conference is “”(De)centralization and Incentives.” Organizers of the conference are Assistant Professor Marcelo Fernandez of JHU’s Krieger […]
Prerna Rakheja is a finalist for this year’s Excellence in Teaching Awards for the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences in the Undergraduate Teaching – Teaching Assistant category. https://krieger.jhu.edu/teachingaward/
Professor Moffitt’s coauthored report on child poverty, commissioned by the US Congress, was released by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. Child Poverty Rate Could Be Cut in Half in Next Decade Following Proposals in New Expert Report A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty (2019)
Household indebtedness did not weaken US monetary transmission post-crisis There is little evidence on whether deteriorating household balance sheets in advanced economies have made monetary policy less effective since the Global Crisis. Using US household-level data, this column shows that the responsiveness of household consumption to monetary policy has in fact diminished since the crisis, […]
