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The Early Bird Catches the Worm? Probably Not, Says Science on School Start Times

School start times are becoming a hotly debated topic across the United States. Starting middle and high school at 8.30 a.m. would help the health of teenagers and the benefits would likely outweigh the economic cost after a reasonable time.

Sep 12, 2017
Commentary

If Teenagers Get More Sleep, California Could Gain Billions

Two key effects of better-rested teens are improved academic performance and reduced motor vehicle crashes. Delaying school start times to 8:30 a.m. could result in economic benefits that would be realized within a matter of years — $10 billion in California alone.

Sep 7, 2017
Report

Starting School Later Would Boost the Economy

Moving school start times to 8:30 a.m. could contribute $83 billion to the U.S. economy within a decade. These gains would come from higher academic and professional performance, and reduced car crash rates.

Aug 30, 2017
News Release

News Release

Shifting School Start Times Could Contribute $83 Billion to U.S. Economy Within a Decade

A state-by-state analysis (in 47 states) of the economic implications of a shift in school start times in the U.S., shows that a nationwide move to 8.30 a.m. could contribute $83 billion to the U.S. economy within a decade. These gains would be realized through higher academic and professional performance, and reduced car crash rates.

Aug 30, 2017
Journal Article

Journal Article

Portfolio Society: On the Capitalist Mode of Prediction by Ivan Ascher

Book review of Portfolio Society: On the Capitalist Mode of Prediction by Ivan Ascher.

Jun 30, 2017
Dissertation

Dissertation

Three Essays on Growth Econometrics

Three essays exploring large discrepancies between different panel datasets of cross-country estimates of gross domestic product.

Mar 15, 2017
Journal Article

Journal Article

(Un)expected Housing Price Changes: Identifying the Drivers of Small Business Finance

In this paper, we use the Kauffman Firm Survey to examine the effect of housing price changes on small business financial variables.

Jan 10, 2017
Commercial Book

Puzzles, Paradoxes, Controversies, and the Global Economy

In this collection of essays first published between 2007 and 2014, Charles Wolf Jr. shares his insights on the world's economies, including those of China, the United States, Japan, Korea, and India.

Jun 1, 2015
Commentary

Commentary

Where Keynes Went Wrong

Failure to consider the potentially adverse effect of government spending on the preexisting level of aggregate demand was and remains a disabling flaw in Keynesian theory—then and now, writes Charles Wolf, Jr.

Nov 7, 2011
Report

Report

Macroeconomic Strategy for the 1990s: Getting the Long Run Right

The central economic debate for the first half of 1993, couched in terms of short-run economic stimulus versus long-run deficit reduction was misleading for U.S. long-run strategy.

Jan 1, 1993
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Ifeanyi Edochie

Assistant Policy Researcher; Ph.D. Candidate, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Education M.A. in economics, Duke University; B.S. in economics and industrial engineering, Lehigh University
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Pavan Katkar

Assistant Policy Researcher; Ph.D. Candidate, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Education M.A. in science and security, King's College London; B.E. in information science, National Institute of Engineering, Mysore
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Tal Wolfson

Assistant Policy Researcher; Ph.D. Candidate, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Education M.A. in economics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; B.A. in economics and philosophy, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

RAND Topic:
Macroeconomics

Topic Synonyms:
Macro-Economics