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The Hamilton Project produces and commissions policy proposals and analyses to promote broad-based economic growth by embracing a significant role for well-designed government policies and public investment.
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Event recap—AI + work: Understanding AI’s impact on the labor market
On March 10, the Budget Lab at Yale, The Hamilton Project, and Peterson Institute for International Economics hosted an event on AI’s impact on the labor market.
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Policies to broaden participation in the innovation process
Some of the starkest differences between women and minorities' participation in the innovation process arises in the practice and commercialization of inve…
The nature of work after the COVID crisis: Too few low-wage jobs
David Autor and Elisabeth Reynolds ask whether the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the conventional wisdom about automation and inequality in the United States o…
Innovation policies to boost productivity
John Van Reenen of MIT and the Sloan School of Management proposes an ambitious Grand Innovation Challenge Fund that would increase U.S. investment in research…
The slowdown in productivity growth and policies that can restore it
Improving labor productivity is important to sustain economic output and power long-run growth—yet productivity growth has generally declined over the past hal…
Reforming the patent system
A Hamilton Project proposal by Lisa Larrimore Ouellette and Heidi Williams of Stanford University offers several reforms to the U.S. patent system. Improving t…
Promoting innovation for low-carbon technologies
In this paper, David Popp points out that despite the recent progress made in clean technology innovation, much remains to be done in order to decarbonize our …
Extending the reach of research universities: A proposal for productivity growth
Given the growth of the knowledge-based economy as well as the role universities play in high-productivity clusters, many policymakers have discussed the role …
Supporting start-ups with better management practices
Ryan Nunn and Jay Shambaugh's analysis of the U.S. Census Bureau's Management and Organizational Practices (MOPS) survey finds that management competen…
