May 15, 2020 The Oregonian
Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence and Professor of Economics, Emily Oster's weekly newsletter "ParentData" is cited in this article.
May 15, 2020 Monocle
In this interview, William R. Rhodes ’57 Professor of International Economics and Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs, Mark Blyth, talks about his new book, ‘Angrynomics’, co-authored with Erik Lonergan.
May 14, 2020 Newsmax
In this opinion piece, Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs and Visiting Professor of the Practice of Political Science, Richard Arenberg, questions the voices of Republican senators: "Where are the present-day profiles in courage?"
May 13, 2020 ABC6
Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs and Visiting Professor of the Practice of Political Science, Richard Arenberg, provides commentary on the $3 trillion Heroes Act.
May 13, 2020
In May 2020, Eric Patashnik co-wrote "Policy Analysis and Political Sustainability" with R. Kent Weaver. This piece focuses on a “checklist” of potential sources, risk factors, and warning signs for potential challenges to political sustainability and applies this analysis to the case of the Affordable Care Act.
May 11, 2020 Mint Press News
Director of the William R. Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance, William R. Rhodes ’57 Professor of International Economics, and Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs, Mark Blyth, provides commentary on the purchase of luxury homes by wealthy individuals amid the coronavirus pandemic.
May 10, 2020 India Education Diary
In this article, Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs, John Friedman, discusses OI Economic Tracker, launched by Opportunity Insights, the nonprofit research team he co-directs. “Policymakers can use this tool to understand not only the state of the economy in real time but also whether their policies are having the desired effects...This tool ensures that developing data-driven policies no longer means having to wait weeks or months for the data to become available — this is evidence-driven policy, updated for the era of big data.”
May 8, 2020 Providence Business News
Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence and Professor of Economics, Emily Oster, helped develop Rhode Island's coronavirus projection model.
May 8, 2020 The Guardian
Richard Holbrooke Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs, Jeff Colgan, on the future of oil prices: “Nothing lasts forever in the oil business but low oil prices are probably here to stay for at least the rest of the year and perhaps much longer...Even when consumer demand increases after lockdowns end, there is an awful lot of inventory build-up that will keep prices from rising too quickly.”
May 7, 2020 CBS News
In this interview, Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs, John Friedman, discusses a tool developed by the research team Opportunity Insights, which he co-directs, to help policymakers and nonprofits respond to rapid economic shifts during the global health crisis.
May 7, 2020 MSNBC
In this interview, Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs, John Friedman reacts to new jobless claims.
May 7, 2020 The New York Times
Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs, John Friedman: "There’s just no evidence that this partial reopening in Georgia has significantly changed anything in the economy."
May 7, 2020 Nieman Lab
In this article, Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence and Professor of Economics, Emily Oster, discusses the launch of COVID-Explained, website aimed at offering quick answers and explainers to coronavirus-related questions.
May 7, 2020
In May 2020, Brown's new COVID-19 Research Seed Fund, consisting of 15 teams of faculty researchers, began working to develop solutions that could impact the world’s response to the pandemic. Emily Oster will work with the team determining how widespread the exposure to the virus has been in Rhode Island.
May 7, 2020
In May 2020, John Friedman and a nonprofit research team called Opportunity Insights launched the OI Economic Tracker, a new real-time economic tracker to help policymakers, nonprofit organizations and philanthropists understand the dimensions of the COVID-induced economic downturn and identify targeted, effective recovery efforts.
May 5, 2020 Yahoo
In this article, Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence and Professor of Economics, Emily Oster, comments on the transmission of COVID-19 by children as communities think about ways to reopen schools and daycares this fall. Oster concludes that "our primary concern should be adult-to-adult transmission."
May 1, 2020 The Columbia Chronicle
Director of the Annenberg Institute at Brown University and Professor of Education and International and Public Affairs, Susanna Loeb's 2017 study is cited in this article on the decline in student-performance associated with online learning.
April 29, 2020 Bloomberg
Chair and Professor of Political Science, Wendy Schiller, discusses the government's response to recent COVID-19 related issues, such as President Trump's decision to use the Defense Production Act to keep meat processing plants open.
April 28, 2020 New York Times
Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs, Ross Cheit, provides commentary on Governor Gina Raimondo's response to the coronavirus pandemic, saying “She’s a no-baloney technocrat...She’s not charming but she’s really smart, and that’s made her really popular now.”
April 28, 2020 Boston Globe
Chair and Professor of Political Science, Wendy Schiller, provides commentary on how the census will affect Rhode Island politics; “The upside for Rhode Islanders is the potential to have a stronger Republican challenger for the one remaining congressional seat because they will be running statewide and that gives them a better chance at victory."