Archive for the ‘Inequality’ Tag
Link: https://aearesearchhighlights.libsyn.com/ep-49-the-great-reset
The Covid-19 pandemic has significantly impacted wealth and income disparity. In his paper, Guido Alfani looks back at previous pandemics to see how different factors affected the gap between the rich and poor. Guido explores how we can learn from previous pandemic policies so new policy decisions can have a meaningful impact on decreasing inequality in the long run.
Original Air Date: April 4, 2022
Length: 19 Minutes
Citation: Alfani, Guido. 2022. “Epidemics, Inequality, and Poverty in Preindustrial and Early Industrial Times.” Journal of Economic Literature, 60 (1): 3-40.
Link: https://www.aeaweb.org/research/ellora-derenoncourt-great-migration
In this AEA Research Highlights podcast, Derenoncourt discusses her findings on how some policies that encourage families to move to opportunity ignore the fundamentals that allow neighborhoods to thrive. In her paper, Derenoncourt uses evidence from the Great Migration to show why earning potential has decreased for African Americans living in those same neighborhoods that once promised a better life.
Original Air Date: March 2, 2022
Length: 19 Minutes 32 Seconds
Paper Citation: Derenoncourt, Ellora. 2022. “Can You Move to Opportunity? Evidence from the Great Migration.” American Economic Review, 112 (2): 369-408.
Link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ezra-klein-show/id1548604447?i=1000540488241
Federal student loan interest and payments are set to resume after January for about 45 million Americans who carry an astounding $1.8 trillion in student debt. Louise Seamster, a sociologist at the University of Iowa, discusses wealth disparities between black and white borrowers and how student debt shapes the lives of young people. Seamster also considers solutions to the student debt crisis, one of which includes debt cancellation.
Original Air Date: November 2, 2021
Length: 58 Minutes 11 Seconds
Link: https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace/goldman-sachs-to-invest-10-billion-in-black-women/
The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected black women, not only in growing unemployment rates but also in increased death rates. Goldman Sachs has committed to $10 billion going toward expanding economic opportunities for black women, having found that a black woman’s wealth is 90% lower than a white man’s, in addition to the struggles the pandemic has presented for the black community. This episode of Marketplace also discusses how restaurants will benefit from the relief package and why grocery stores are making investments into robots.
Original Air Date: March 12, 2021
Length: 28 minutes 34 seconds
Link: https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2021/03/18/how-can-successful-women-help-their-successors-through-the-glass-ceiling
With the passing of one year mark for the COVID-19 pandemic, we are seeing record numbers of women leaving the workforce. Looking toward the future, women in senior positions want to make sure that the advancements that women have made in the workforce do not regress. Anne McElvoy, of the Economist talks with Joanna Coles, CEO of Northern Star Investments and former chief content officer of Hearst magazines, and Melora Hardin star of “The Bold Type” and “The Office” about how executive women are portrayed in media. They also discuss how limited work-life balance and discrimination that women face affect their day to day lives. The discussion encompasses many issues that women have continued to endure, which is very important as we continue to move through International Women’s Month.
Original Air Date: March 18, 2021
Length: 30 minutes 38 seconds
Link: https://www.npr.org/2020/10/05/920342513/rethinking-black-wealth
Dr. Andre Perry, a Brookings Institution fellow, highlights the disparities of wealth and structural racism in predominantly Black neighborhoods. He discusses his self-coined term “devalued assets” and how oppressive policy that has been enforced on Black communities has caused extensive damage throughout. An educational conversation to bring Black History Month to a close.
Original Air Date: October 7, 2020
Length: 20 minutes 59 seconds
Link: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/world-vs-virus-podcast/
This podcast connects the Covid-19 pandemic and the existing racial inequalities that have been exposed throughout the pandemic. Sridhar discusses the disproportionate effect Covid-19 has had on minority communities and the unconscious biases that have allowed this to occur. She also discusses the need to eradicate the virus, rather than living with it, after seeing new clusters of cases emerge in countries such as England, China, and South Korea.
Original Air Date: June 18, 2020
Length: 18 minutes 11 seconds
Link: http://www.marketplace.org/2016/03/21/world/melinda-gates
Summary: Work around the house and for the family is unpaid work and mostly done by women. This reduces their labor force participation and ultimately hurts the GDP of a country. Melinda Gates suggests reducing the work through innovation for the developing countries and redistributing the work amongst partners for developed countries. Higher levels of equity between the sexes will contribute to a stronger social fabric and economy.
Original Air Date: March 23, 2016
Length: 8 minutes and 29 seconds
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