Commentary

For a Better Birth Rate Debate, Consider the Possibilities, The Dispatch, September 30, 2024

The U.S. Economy Needs More Two Parent Families, Time, September 28, 2023

A Driver of Inequality Not Enough People are Talking About, The Atlantic Online September 18, 2023

The Explosive Rise of Single Parent Families is Not a Good Thing, The New York Times, September 17, 2023

Too Many High School Seniors are Turning Away from College Altogether. with Luke Pardue. Time, May 2023.

How to Fight Poverty and Boost Work with and Enhanced Child Tax Credit, Melissa S.Kearney and Wendy Edelberg, The Hill, March 2023.

America's Slowing Population Growth is Here to Stay, Financial Times, December 2022.

Six Reasons why an expanded child tax credit or child allowance should be part of the US safety net. Brookings Institution. October 12, 2021.

How lifting children out of poverty today will help them tomorrow. with Hilary Hoynes and Diane Schanzenbach, The Conversation. April 2021.

We Expect 300,000 Fewer Births This Year. with Phillip B. Levine, New York Times Opinion. March 4, 2021.

Romney's Plan to Help Families and Promote Work. with Diane Schanzenbach, The Hill. February 17, 2021.

What a Successful Economic Recovery Plan Must Look Like. with Jason Furman, Timothy Geithner, and Glenn Hubbard, Washington Post opinion. June 16, 2020.

Emerging from the COVID-19 Crisis a Better and More Resilient Society, The Hill opinion. April 11, 2020.

Americans are being left behind. Here’s how we fix it. with Henry M. Paulson and Erskine Bowles, Washington Post opinion, January 27, 2019.

How Should Governments Address Income Inequality? Putting Piketty into Practice, Foreign Affairs, November/December 2017.

Disadvantaged kids to miss out on educational TV under Trump budget, with Phillip Levine, The Hill, March 19, 2017.

Should we be concerned about income inequality? in Ed. Michael Strain, The U.S. Labor Market: Questions and Challenges for U.S. Policy. Washington D.C.: American Enterprise Institute. June 2016.

What the Media Got Wrong About Our ‘Sesame Street’ Education Study, with Phillip Levine, New Republic, June 19, 2015.

How a Simple Change to the Tax Code Could Help the Middle Class, Washington Post, December 24, 2014.

Is MTV’s 16 and Pregnant ‘A Great Form of Birth Control’? with Phillip Levine, Huffingtonpost.com, January 13, 2014.

Making the poor – and the U.S. – poorer still, with Robert Rubin and Roger C. Altman, Washington Post opinion, December 8, 2013.

Forget Plan B: To Fight Teen Childbearing, Focus on Economic Opportunity, with Phillip Levine, The Atlantic, May 8, 2013.

Income Inequality, Economic Despair, and Teen Childbearing, with Phillip Levine, Huffingtonpost.com, June 7, 2012.
Brookings webinar: "A Comparative Perspective on Policies to Support Single-Parent Families," December 2022

Aspen Institute McCloskey Speaker Series, "Is the US Headed for Stagflation?," August 2022

National Academies of Sciences panel on "The Impact of COVID-19 on Birth Rates: Considerations for Planning and Policy Webinar," June 6, 2022.

SIEPR 2022 summit, "Federal Spending Panel," March 4, 2022

University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP), "Tax Policy for Low Income Americans," August 27, 2021

American Economic Institute, "Poverty in the Wake of the Pandemic-Induced Recession," July 2020

Brookings Webinar. June 2020.

AEI Webinar. June 2020.

Aspen Ideas Festival 2019, "A Path Forward on Economic Prosperity,” Aspen, CO June 2019.

Federal Reserve Community Development Research Conference, "Emerging Labor Market and Education Trends Reshaping Pathways to the Middle Class” May 2019

Hurst lecture series, "Creating Economic Opportunity for More Americans,” Aspen, CO. Aug 2018.

Aspen Ideas Festival 2016, "Inclusive Capitalism,” Aspen CO June 2016.

American Economic Institute, "Improving Economic Opportunity in America,” March 2017, discussion of work by Raj Chetty.

Kearney, Melissa. U.S. Congressional Testimony, Joint Economic Committee, "Income Inequality in the United States,” January 16, 2014.
WBGH Innovation Hub, "How To End Child Poverty With Social Security?," February 2021.

Freakonomics, "How Much Do We Really Care About Children," (Ep. 447) Jan 2021.

Econochats, "Child Poverty in the United States," September 2020.

Morning Brew, Business Casual, "How a Birth Bust Could Bust the Economy," September 2020.

Brookings Cafeteria, "How Cultural Factors Affect Children's Economic Outcomes," July 2020.

WBGH Innovation Hub, "Baby Boom or Baby Bust?," June 2020.

Freakonomics, "Does 'Early Education' Come Way Too Late?," Feb 2018.

Freakonomics, "The Fracking Boom, a Baby Boom, and the Retreat From Marriage," July 2017.

Freakonomics, "Is America Ready for a No Lose Lottery?," November 2017.

Brookings Cafeteria, "Why the Poorest Kids Quit High School," March 2016.