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Why inflation may respond faster to big shocks: The rise of state-dependent pricing Macroeconomic models distinguish time-dependent pricing, where firms change prices at fixed intervals, from state-dependent pricing, where firms change prices in response to changing demand or costs. ...

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The recent inflation spike has mostly subsided, but we're still learning about its effects, including this new insight from @nickbloom.bsky.social and co-authors: U.K. data show that many companies set prices differently than they did before. Check out their @voxeu.org research summary. 👇

Can #economics help save the planet? Meet Hunt Allcott, a SIEPR senior fellow and director of the Stanford Environmental and Energy Policy Analysis Center. Listen as he takes 90 seconds to describe his work using the tools of economics to solve climate change problems.

How to fix California's child care crunch A new SIEPR policy brief unpacks the economic cost of California’s broken child care market and sheds light on the public investment needed for a universal child care program.

(4/4) Here is a SIEPR news summary of the reports and why their findings are especially relevant today.

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(3/4) The second specifies the kinds of reforms needed to move the state a lot closer to a child care system that provides high-quality care parents can afford, written by Jade Jenkins @uci-education.bsky.social and Austin Land @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social.

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(2/4) The first is a SIEPR Policy Brief measuring the economic harms, incl. up to $23B in annual GDP losses for Calif., and the public investment needed for universal child care. Authors include SIEPR Policy Fellow @chloergibbs.bsky.social and SIEPR Research Scholar T.V. Ninan.

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📣 Adding to the momentum behind #UniversalChildcare: 2 new reports👇looking at California's #childcare crisis and detailing reforms that would help make childcare a lot more affordable in the state.

#EarlyChildhood #ChildcareCrisis #CareEconomy #EconSky

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Topics covered:

#FederalReserve challenges
#Tariffs and #inflation
#AI and the #workforce
#Labormarket risks
#Affordability & the high cost of living
Rising #healthcare premiums
Fiscal policy: Deficits & debts
#Energy's pricing problem

#Economy2026

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🧵New SIEPR Policy Brief looks at the U.S. #economy's biggest risks and opportunities to shed light on what could go right or wrong in 2026, from SIEPR's Jared Bernstein @jaredb-econ.bsky.social, Ryan Cummings @weakinstrument.bsky.social, @nealemahoney.bsky.social and Erika McEntarfer. Read in link 👇

(3/3) More on Mahoney's digital subs research, with SIEPR Senior Fellow Liran Einav:

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Why Subscriptions Make Everything More Expensive Subscription services exist for nearly everything consumers buy. Many, like Netflix or Spotify, start out affordable, but the cost adds up over time. And while signing up is effortless, cancelling can be difficult. Companies such as Adobe and Amazon have even been accused by the Federal Trade Commission of using dark patterns to trap consumers in subscriptions. But rising costs are only part of the problem. The subscription model is eroding consumer’s opportunity to own what they buy. So how did we get to the point where practically everything is a subscription? And why is owning nothing making everything so expensive? 00:00 - Intro 01:58 - Why subscriptions are everywhere 06:26 - Companies love subscriptions 09:13 - Subscriptions are sneaky 10:29 - Cancelling is difficult 13:39 - Own nothing economy 16:52 - Consumers fight back 22:56 - The future of subscriptions 24:24 - Credits Note: One of the thumbnails tested for this video was partially created with generative AI. ------------------------------------------------------ #subscriptions #subscriptionmodel #soexpensive MORE SO EXPENSIVE VIDEOS: Why Going To Concerts Is Harder Than Ever https://youtu.be/sN1AVSZyFbY How The World's Most Expensive Color Is Made https://youtu.be/nBjgngg6_bE 19 Of The World's Most Expensive Resources https://youtu.be/B-lF-Bev3Vg Business Insider tells you all you need to know about business, finance, tech, retail, and more. Visit our homepage for the top stories of the day: https://www.businessinsider.com Business Insider on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/businessinsider Business Insider on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/businessinsider Business Insider on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/businessinsider Business Insider on Snapchat: https://www.snapchat.com/discover/Business_Insider/5319643143 Business Insider on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@businessinsider Why Subscriptions Make Everything More Expensive | So Expensive | Business Insider

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🧵 The end of ownership: @businessinsider.com's "So Expensive" video series explores the rise of online subscriptions, and turns to SIEPR's @nealemahoney.bsky.social for insights into how digital subs drain consumers' wallets and stifle competition. Link 👇

#SubscriptionModels #ConsumerProtection

👇 SIEPR's Matthew Gentzkow and MIT's Amy Finkelstein use Medicare data to show that U.S. regions with high health care spending don't have better patient outcomes than low-spending areas. Why not? The authors rule out patient differences and suggest the problem lies in the health care system itself.

Meet Matt Gentzkow, a Stanford economist who’s studied how digital media impacts our politics, mental health, and society at large. He’s also the latest SIEPR scholar to take on our “Beat the Clock” challenge: To sum up his work in 90 seconds or less.

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Study: Public preschool aids in developmental, learning-related diagnoses New research by SIEPR scholars Adrienne Sabety and Maya Rossin-Slater shows how early exposure to public preschool benefits low-income children with behavioral and developmental conditions.

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New study from SIEPR's Adrienne Sabety, @maya-rossin-slater.bsky.social and Aileen Wu shows that access to public preschool increases diagnosis, treatment rates for low-income kids with speech or language impairment, behavioral conditions, etc. Links to news summary, paper 👇 #HeadStart #ChildCare

Push to Audit Private Equity and Venture Capital Falters Under Trump

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A push by Biden's IRS to audit more VC and private equity firms is "falling apart" under Trump, says @nytimes.com. The article cites research by SIEPR's Rebecca Lester and Daniel Ho showing that audits of complex partnerships like these can generate $20 in tax collections per IRS $1 spent. Link 👇

The flawed markets for essential goods and services that @jaredb-econ.bsky.social, SIEPR policy fellow, says can make a meaningful difference for Americans squeezed by high prices: #housing, #healthcare, #childcare and #energy.

How the Fed Became a Lender of Immediate Resort Amit Seru argues that overuse of emergency measures has weakened accountability and distorted incentives.

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The biggest threat to #Fed independence isn't Trump's attacks or a potential U.S. Supreme Court ruling expanding presidential authority. It's the Fed's mission creep, argues SIEPR's Amit Seru in a new op-ed. The @gsb.stanford.edu professor makes his case in link below.

When school shooting headlines fade, the trauma doesn’t - The Boston Globe The scars of school shootings often endure for years, shaping mental health, educational trajectories, and economic futures.

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Sobering reminder from SIEPR's @maya-rossin-slater.bsky.social that, for students who witnessed the Brown U. shooting, the trauma may be just beginning. In this @bostonglobe.com op-ed, she and her co-authors explain the economic and mental health harms facing school shooting survivors. Free link 👇.

The Labor Market and Health Impacts of Reducing Cesarean Section Deliveries Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

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The controversy over C-sections centers on health risks for moms and babies. What about the economic effects for working women? New study, from SIEPR's Petra Persson and @maya-rossin-slater.bsky.social, along with UMich's @smiller.bsky.social and NYU's @laurawherryr.bsky.social, has some answers. 👇

#ArtificialIntelligence
#Economy

AI & the Economy | Beyond Words: Building AI for the Physical World The SIEPR Policy Forum on “AI & the Economy” brought together leading experts, policymakers and scholars to explore the rapidly advancing technology’s risks and opportunities, its current and future impacts, and the policies needed in the U.S. and globally to ensure that AI-driven economic prosperity is widely shared. In this fireside chat, Fei-Fei Li, founding co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), offered insights into AI’s trajectory and her belief that AI’s next frontier is spatial intelligence. Neale Mahoney, the Trione Director of SIEPR and the TG Wijaya Professor of Economics in the Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences, moderated. For more information about this event, held on Nov. 20, 2025, and the work of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), visit http://siepr.stanford.edu/events/policy-forum/ai-economy

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👏 Time's 2025 person of the year: @drfeifei.bsky.social and other "Architects of AI." SIEPR director @nealemahoney.bsky.social spoke with Dr. Li at SIEPR's recent policy forum on the #AI economy about what's coming next for the breakthrough technology. Watch their conversation in link below.