Understanding Gun Violence in America | Steven Davis, Jens Ludwig | Hoover Institution
Steve Davis speaks to Jens Ludwig about his deeply-researched new book on gun deaths in America. They discuss why America has so many gun deaths, how traditional narratives fail to explain most gun vi...
7 Touko 202550min
Trade Policy Rupture | Steven Davis, Chad Bown, Doug Irwin | Hoover Institution
Steve queries Chad Bown and Doug Irwin about the rupture in U.S. trade policy under Trump 2.0, the economic consequences, and what it would take to restore confidence in the United States as a reliabl...
23 Huhti 202552min
The 1920s Immigration Clampdown | Steven Davis, Ran Abramitzky | Hoover Institution
In the 1920s, the US government sharply restricted immigration inflows from countries in Eastern and Southern Europe. At the time, most immigrants from these countries had modest skills. Steve speaks ...
9 Huhti 202555min
Do Government Statistics Yield Better Business Outcomes? | Steven Davis, Feng Chi | Hoover Institution
Steve speaks to Feng Chi about her research on the commercial value of the Decennial Census of Population and Housing. Using a creative empirical approach, Feng offers evidence that fresher government...
26 Maalis 202544min
American Lives | Economics, Applied | Steven Davis, Stelios Michalopoulos | Hoover Institution
In the 1930s, as part of the New Deal, the U.S. government hired unemployed writers to interview older Americans and record their life stories. Today’s guest examines those stories to investigate the ...
12 Maalis 202556min
GenAI in the Workplace | Economics, Applied | Steven Davis, David Deming | Hoover Institution
Steve speaks to Harvard professor David Deming about his recent research on the use of GenAI tools in the workplace and what it means for productivity. David’s evidence suggests that GenAI tools have ...
26 Helmi 202540min
Immigration and the Education of US-Born Children | Economics, Applied | Steven Davis, David Figlio, and Paola Sapienza| Hoover Institution
Many parents – indeed, many Americans – worry that immigrant children in the classroom could detract from the quality of schooling received by U.S.-born children. It’s a reasonable concern. Today’s ep...
29 Tammi 202548min
The Chinese Exclusion Act and U.S. Economic Development | Economics, Applied | Steven Davis and Nancy Qian | Hoover Institution
Many Chinese nationals migrated to the western United States after 1840 to work in mining, railway construction, manufacturing, and personal services. By 1880, they made up 18 percent of the workforce...
15 Tammi 202539min
