Sébastien Turban

What It Takes to Get Lunch Delivered to the 70th Floor

What It Takes to Get Lunch Delivered to the 70th Floor www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/w...

How much would mothers earn if they didn't have children? A review of the child penalty literature

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China's "Anti-Involution" Campaign: Global Implications Slashing excessive investment seems to be easier than ramping up domestic consumption. Net exports, supported by FX management, seem to be making up the difference.

China's "Anti-Involution" Campaign: Global Implications
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« Le budget de l’éducation nationale est artificiellement gonflé » Les débats sur la dépense d’éducation, souvent jugée trop élevée, sont biaisés par les règles de calcul de la retraite des fonctionnaires d’Etat, juge l’économiste Julien Grenet.

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Giving people money helped less than I thought it would Ending the war on poverty will take more than cash transfers

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For Some Patients, the ‘Inner Voice’ May Soon Be Audible

For Some Patients, the ‘Inner Voice’ May Soon Be Audible www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/s...

Kennedy Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts

Kennedy Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/h...

Why Are Americans So Scared of Talking to Each Other? An interview with the social psychologist Adam Mastroianni about American aloneness and why the secret to great conversations is ... "doorknobs."

Why Are Americans So Scared of Talking to Each Other?
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Don’t Blame AI For The Rise in Recent Graduate Unemployment AI may be a hot topic, but there isn't strong evidence that it’s responsible for the weaker labor market for recent college graduates.

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The AI Becker problem Who will train the next generation?

The AI Becker problem
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Racial Inequality in France Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

Racial Inequality in France nber.org/papers/w34013 "We study racial inequality in 21st century France. Using parents’ nationality at birth, we overcome the lack of ethno-racial statistics stemming from the country’s “color-blind” approach."

Trump thinks Americans consume too much. He has a point He will not like the remedy, however

Trump thinks Americans consume too much. He has a point
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From The Economist

Comment mesurer l'évolution du pouvoir d'achat de l'ensemble des ménages ? Si la crise inflationniste des années 2022 et 2023 a remis la question du pouvoir d’achat au centre des préoccupations des Français, elle a aussi ravivé les

Comment mesurer l'évolution du pouvoir d'achat de l'ensemble des ménages ? blog.insee.fr/mesurer-l-ev...

Service costs aren't exploding anymore Another common economic narrative that's out of date.

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The Spy Factory

The Spy Factory www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/w...

How Xi sparked China’s electricity revolution Beijing’s aggressive pursuit of energy self-sufficiency could give it the upper hand in the trade war with the US

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Why are solar panels and batteries from China so cheap? It's more to do with automation and state-of-the art manufacturing processes than cheap labour.

Why are solar panels and batteries from China so cheap?
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Location Effects or Sorting? Evidence from Firm Relocation Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

Location Effects or Sorting? Evidence from Firm Relocation www.nber.org/papers/w33779 "location effects...account for only 2%–5% of the total variance in log wages...Differences in worker composition across cities explain ~ 30%..., diff in firm composition...an additional 15%."

Understanding the Effects of Tariffs www.aei.org/research-pro... This is really well written

Should We Worry About Global Imbalances? On the significance of safe asset shortages

Should We Worry About Global Imbalances?
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Sous-indexer certaines pensions de retraite : pourquoi et comment ? - Blog IPP Les débats récents ont fait émerger, entre autres, l’idée d’une modération des dépenses de retraite par le biais d’une revalorisation des pensions inférieure au taux prévu par la Loi, à savoir l’infla...

Sous-indexer certaines pensions de retraite : pourquoi et comment ? blog.ipp.eu/2025/04/08/s...

Is Dollar Dominance Good for the U.S.? Thoughts on the U.S.'s so-called exorbitant privilege.

Is Dollar Dominance Good for the U.S.?
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Daily Pill May Work as Well as Ozempic for Weight Loss and Blood Sugar Eli Lilly said clinical results of its GLP-1 in pill form showed safety and efficacy data similar to blockbuster injectable drugs.

Daily Pill May Work as Well as Ozempic for Weight Loss and Blood Sugar www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/h...

Ensuring high but sustainable growth in Türkiye By Sébastien Turban, Economist, OECD Türkiye has been one of the fastest-growing economies in the OECD over the past decade, leading to a significant improvement of labour market and social outcome…

Our blog post on the recently-released OECD Economic Survey of Türkiye (aka the Sürviye) is up oecdecoscope.blog/2025/04/17/e... via @oecdeconomy.bsky.social We discuss the macroeconomy and structural reforms to ensure sustainable growth!

How China Took Over the World’s Rare Earths Industry China seized mines and built factories. Japan took note and invested in Australia. But the United States did little despite concerns about control of supplies.

How China Took Over the World’s Rare Earths Industry www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/b...

Trump Grows Increasingly Combative in Showdowns With the Courts Scholars say that the Trump administration is now flirting with lawless defiance of court orders, a path with an uncertain end.

In Showdowns With the Courts, Trump Is Increasingly Combative www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/u...

Intergenerational mobility of immigrants in 15 destination countries cepr.org/voxeu/column... via @voxeu.org

Why holiday rentals are winning the battle for Europe’s city centres Residents of tourist hotspots have long demanded that Airbnb-style letting platforms be banned. But booking numbers in Europe — and housing costs — are still rising

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Trump Deploys Justice Dept. to Scrutinize Ex-Officials and Perceived Foes A presidential decree instructing the Justice Department to scrutinize whether a former official broke the law crosses a new line.

Trump Escalates Use of Official Power to Intimidate and Punish His Perceived Foes www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...