Media Engagement
Brookings Institution: Commentary on `How to reduce gender inequality in labor markets in Africa.' February 13, 2024
Brookings Institution: Comments on 'How unequal health outcomes challenge economic growth in Africa'. July 19, 2023
NPR Planet Money: Comments on 'To all the econ papers I've loved before'. January 27, 2023
All Africa and Brookings: Report on 'Why Africa Matters to the United States' . Also found here. December 8, 2022
Smithsonian Magazine: Comments on 'What you need to know about the COP27 summit ' . November 8, 2022
Quartz: Comments on 'How much does the US owe the rest of the world for climate change?' . April 15, 2021
Sierra Magazine: Comments on 'Bailout: Billions of Dollars of Federal COVID-19 Relief Money Flow to the Oil Industry'. August 26, 2020
Marketplace: Comments on 'The pandemic has been especially hard on Black-owned businesses'. August 4, 2020
New York Times: Comments on 'Trump to Weaken Environmental Rules to Speed Infrastructure Permits'. July 15, 2020
Reuters: Comments on 'In New York's Harlem, small businesses reel from coronavirus toll on Black communities'. July 14, 2020
Vox: Comments on 'Housing segregation left Black Americans more vulnerable to Covid-19'. July 10, 2020. See accompanying NAREA factsheet here
Fortune Magazine: Comments on ‘The impacts of house-flipping for housing voucher holders’. May 16, 2020
CNBC: Comments on ‘How COVID-19 has worsened preexisting racial inequalities’. May 15, 2020 . See accompanying NAREA factsheet here
Fortune Magazine: Comments on ‘the effects of stay-at-home orders and COVID-19 on gender inequality, women’s welfare and the economy’. Associated research on the effects of epidemics on gender inequality here
Fortune Magazine: Comments on ‘the effects of stimulus spending during a pandemic’. April 16, 2020 . Associated research on ‘The Epidemic Effect’ and economic responses to pandemic
San Francisco Chronicle: Comments on the ‘links between increased internet access for children during the pandemic and better labor market outcomes in the future.’ April 6, 2020. Associated research on ‘the effects of epidemics on economic outcomes and the role of ICT in labor market outcomes here’
Fortune Magazine: Comments on ‘the disproportionate effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on girls and women’ April 2, 2020. Associated research on the effects of epidemics on gender inequality here
Thrive Global: Comments on ‘tips to deal with Coronavirus-related money stress’. March 31, 2020. Associated research on ‘The Epidemic Effect’ and economic responses to pandemic
Christian Science Monitor: Comments on ‘how COVID-19 has exposed a lack of economic diversification’ March 9, 2020
Al Jazeera: Comments on ‘the links between climate change and child marriage’. February 19, 2020. Associated research on the effects of epidemics on gender inequality here