Commentary

March 29 2024 | Blog: By the Numbers

The Small Role of Ivy League Schools in US Higher Education

The conversation about higher education admissions in the US is often dominated by developments at the eight Ivy League institutions. While there are good reasons to debate admissions at these elite schools (because, for instance, economists have found that their...
Luke Pardue
March 28 2024 | Blog: By the Numbers

March 2024 Jobs Report: Three Things to Know

The BLS estimated that the US economy added 275,000 jobs in February, with the unemployment rate ticking up from 3.7% to 3.9%. Three things stood beneath the headlines of this report. Revisions Take Some Heat of the Economy While...
Luke Pardue
January 22 2024 | News

Aspen Economic Strategy Group Welcomes Five New Members

WASHINGTON, DC, JANUARY 22, 2024 – The Aspen Economic Strategy Group (AESG) today announced five new members have joined the sixty-five-member, bipartisan group of distinguished leaders and thinkers who share the goal of promoting evidence-based solutions to significant challenges confronting...
Aspen Economic Strategy Group
December 05 2023 | Policy Briefs

IN BRIEF: Pandemic-Era Student Learning Loss and the Policy Response

BRIEFLY The COVID-19 pandemic created not only a public health emergency but a youth education crisis as well. Decades of progress in math and reading among America’s students were wiped away in two years. The federal government passed three rounds...
Luke Pardue
November 13 2023 | Articles & Op-Eds

TIME Magazine: High Debt Threatens the U.S. Economy

The difficulty U.S. Congress has had agreeing on spending for this year and avoiding a government shutdown is an indication of just how hard it will be to deal with our longer term debt crisis. Our rising debt burden is...
Melissa S. Kearney, Rob Portman
November 08 2023 | News

Aspen Economic Strategy Group Releases 2023 Annual Policy Volume: Building a More Resilient US Economy

Washington, DC, November 8, 2023 – The Aspen Economic Strategy Group (AESG) today released its sixth annual policy volume, Building a More Resilient US Economy. The book’s publication comes as the US faces historically high levels of debt that threaten...
Aspen Economic Strategy Group
November 08 2023 | Papers

Where Is China’s Economy Headed?

The arc of the Chinese economy over the next 10 to 15 years will depend on three sets of forces, each of which interacts with the others: (1) Domestically, the internal political economy will determine the relationship between the state...
Hanming Fang
November 08 2023 | Papers

Manufacturing Resilience: The US Drive to Reorder Global Supply Chains

Global supply chains—the network through which products and services move from initial producers to final consumers—have become increasingly complex over the past several decades. Recent disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, along with the threat of further interruptions from rising...
Mary Lovely
November 08 2023 | Papers

The Economic Case for Smart Investing in America’s Youth

The United States spends a relatively small sum on children, both on a per capita basis and as a share of all spending. In 2019, the federal government spent an estimated $5,595 per child on programs benefiting children under 18,...
Melissa S. Kearney, Luke Pardue
November 08 2023 | Papers

Overcoming Pandemic-Induced Learning Loss

The global COVID-19 pandemic created not only a once-a-century public health crisis but also a once-a-century public education crisis. Unfortunately, the United States federal government’s financial assistance to schools to overcome pandemic-induced learning loss is about to expire – despite...
Jonathan Guryan, Jens Ludwig

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