PUBLICATIONS Search for: All CategoriesBooksIn BriefMember StatementsNews & CommentaryPapersAll TopicsBudgetClimate & EnergyEducation & WorkforceEmployment & WagesGeographic DisparityImmigrationInequalityInfrastructureInternational TradeProductivity & InnovationPublic FinanceRegulationSocial Welfare Recent Publications September 19 2023 |In BriefIN BRIEF: The Wide Class Divide in Family Structure BRIEFLY: Children in the US are far less likely to be raised in two-parent families today than they were in prior decades, a shift Aspen Economic Strategy Group (AESG) director Melissa Kearney explores in her new book, The Two-Parent… Luke Pardue August 30 2023 |News & CommentaryPress Release: Why Drug Pricing Is Complicated Aspen Economic Strategy Group releases new paper by Kellogg’s Craig Garthwaite and Amanda Starc WASHINGTON, DC | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 2023 — The Aspen Economic Strategy Group (AESG) today released a new paper, “Why… Aspen Economic Strategy Group August 30 2023 |PapersWhy Drug Pricing Reform Is Complicated: A Primer and Policy Guide to Pharmaceutical Prices in the US Pharmaceutical pricing in the United States is a complicated and opaque process. Confusion over price setting and the method by which new drugs are brought to market can lead to ineffective and even harmful policies that decrease society’s access… Amanda Starc, Craig Garthwaite August 15 2023 |PapersComing Soon: Reforming Social Security for the Long Haul Social Security is arguably America’s most important government program, as it is the main source of income for most elderly Americans and represents the primary tax paid by most workers as well. Forty years after Congress made its last… Mark Duggan May 24 2023 |In BriefIN BRIEF: Cutting the Safety Net Is Not an Effective Way to Reduce Government Spending BRIEFLY… High-stakes negotiations over the debt limit center on ways to bring government spending more in line with government revenues. The political contours of the debate have excluded cuts to Social… Luke Pardue, Melissa S. Kearney May 04 2023 |In BriefIN BRIEF: The Who, What, and Why of Declining College Enrollment, 2019-2021 BRIEFLY… College enrollment in the US declined among recent high school graduates in the past couple of years, even as the economic returns to a college degree remain substantial – see this previous IN BREIF. In this post, we… Luke Pardue March 07 2023 |In BriefIN BRIEF: The College Wage Premium Through the COVID-19 Pandemic IN BRIEF COVID-related disruptions coupled with a tight labor market have led to a historic decline in college enrollment of recent high school graduates over the past three years. This drop, however, comes as the earnings premium for… Luke Pardue March 01 2023 |PapersA Proposal for an Enhanced Partially Refundable Child Tax Credit This proposal was produced in collaboration with The Hamilton Project. The proposal will be presented by Wendy Edelberg at a Hamilton Project event on March 1st and can be viewed here. Download (PDF) INTRODUCTION The… Melissa S. Kearney, Wendy Edelberg January 17 2023 |In BriefIN BRIEF: Entrepreneurship Since the COVID-19 Pandemic Editor’s note: The Aspen Economic Strategy Group is pleased to welcome Luke Pardue, an economist at the payroll and HR platform Gusto, as an AESG Fellow. Luke obtained his PhD in economics from the University of Maryland and previously… Luke Pardue January 09 2023 |PapersLocal Labor Market Impacts of the Energy Transition: Prospects and Policies Society’s transition toward more sustainable energy sources is well underway. But substantially reducing the use of fossil fuels to generate electricity, to power vehicles, and to manufacture the stuff of everyday life will profoundly disrupt the communities… Gordon Hanson 1 2 3 … 9 Next »