The most important economic effect of artificial intelligence may not be that machines become more capable. It may be that people become more capable when they work alongside AI.

It is true that one swallow does not make a summer. However, Kevin Warsh’s impressive performance yesterday at his first Federal Reserve Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting as the Fed’s new Chair ...

The Donald Trump era has scrambled the relationship between partisanship and many of the most important social axes of American life—class, gender, region, and now even race and ethnicity. Since 2016, ...

“Designed in California, assembled in China,” reads the text etched on the back of most iPhones. For over a decade, the iPhone has exemplified China’s central role in producing the world’s electronics ...

Washington is facing a multitude of global threats, so it is understandable that officials would second-guess the cost of helping Kyiv. But given the stakes, Americans must have clarity on the ...

The first year of the second Trump administration has seen dramatic changes in immigration policy, resulting in a sharp slowdown in net migration to the United States. We expect the pattern of ...

The 2024 Artificial Intelligence Index, released by Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), delivers crucial insights into AI’s influence and developments. This detailed ...

This volume examines the state of caregiving leave in the United States before the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. Most adults will be responsible for caregiving during their lifetime, yet little public ...

President Joe Biden rejects the economics-driven antitrust policies of the past 40 years. Flanked by his White House competition adviser and his new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) chair in July 2021, ...

Immigrants have an overall positive fiscal impact on the US—an effect driven by high-skilled immigrants. Low-skilled immigrants, like their US-born counterparts, impose a net fiscal cost. However, ...

Work has long been viewed as a critical pathway out of poverty. Therefore, it is important to understand the effects of federal safety-net programs—designed to alleviate poverty and promote economic ...

The China economy field is full of people repeating the government’s numbers and “analyzing” them. If that’s sufficient, China watchers can just project a gradual fall from 5 percent GDP growth ...