First World Problems
Scott Winship, Mariana Icaza DíazSorting through themes related to my in-progress book, First World Problems. Don't hold your breath.
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There Are Many Reasons to Cheer Up About the State of the Middle Class
This piece originally appeared at National Review Online and is reprinted here with permission.
This week, Michael Brendan Dougherty wrote that he doesn’t think he’s “ever been so depressed” as when he read my recent report with Steve Rose...
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I sat on this for a bit, but Oren Cass’s latest “victory” lap one year after Liberation Day convinced me to post. In case you missed it, Cass had a good, smug laugh at economists who predicted the tariffs announced on Liberation Day would b...
Compiling My Work on Work Incentives
At the American Enterprise Institute Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility, which I run, we’re rolling out our new policy catalog, Opportunity Book, with proposals related to five issues: child support enforcement, child tax credit, ear...
Young Men’s Earnings over the Long Run – An Update
Let me start with the chart:
Median pre-tax earnings of men ages 25-29 rose 24 percent ($10,800) from 1973 to 2024, and median post-tax compensation rose 40 percent ($15,500). The gains from 1989 to 2024 were 42 percent ($16,3...
Re-centering Family Structure in Opportunity Insights’ Work on Intergenerational Mobility
The front page of the July 22, 2013 edition of the New York Times heralded the start of a revolution in scholarly research on intergenerational social mobility.1 Capping an above-the-fold article written by star economics reporter David Leo...
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Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility at the American Enterprise Institute. Slowly writing a book...
Mariana Icaza is a Research Assistant at the Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility. Her research interests include poverty measurement and economic mobility. She graduated with a degree in economics from Princeton University in May 2025.
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