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		The $800 Billion Paycheck Protection Program: Where Did the Money Go and Why Did it Go There? Research coauthored by David Autor finds that only about a quarter of the funds spent by the federal Paycheck Protection Program went toward wages that would otherwise have been lost, with the remaining money landing in the pockets of company owners or shareholders.

		MIT News: A "big push" to lift people out of poverty A field experiment from India, led by Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and PhD candidate Garima Sharma, finds that a one-time economic boost helps the very poor fare better for at least a decade.

		PhD student Jaume Vives i Bastida receives 2022 Meta Fellowship Vives i Bastida, a doctoral student in Economics and Statistics, is one of four MIT graduate students awarded highly competitive Meta (Facebook) fellowships for 2022.

		The Work of the Future: Building Better Jobs in an Age of Intelligent Machines In a new book, The Work of the Future: Building Better jobs in an Age of Intelligent Machines, MIT Economist David Autor and coauthors David Mindell and Elisabeth Reynolds explore why the United States lags behind other industrialized countries in sharing the benefits of innovation with workers- and how we can remedy the problem.

		MIT Economics receives Hewlett Foundation grant for Shaping the Future of Work Program Established with generous support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the new initiative co-led by Daron Acemoglu and David Autor will advance research on the erosion of opportunities for workers without four-year college degrees and explore multi-disciplinary action to change this trajectory.

		Jonathan Gruber on designing benefit plans for "platform workers" The twenty-first century has seen significant growth in the "platform workforce:" workers who complete tasks via apps or platforms that allow them to control their own schedule. This new form of work raises a number of challenging issues for labor market policy. Writing for Commonwealth Magazine, Jonathan Gruber discusses his recent research on the topic.

		Simon Jaeger named 2022 Sloan Research Fellow Jaeger, whose research spans labor, public, and behavioral economics, has been awarded a two-year fellowship from The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Sloan Research Fellowships "recognize and reward outstanding early-career faculty who have the potential to revolutionize their fields of study."

		MIT News: As a population gets older, automation accelerates A recent study coauthored by Daron Acemoglu shows that aging populations lead to greater implementation of robots in workplace settings.

		The long afterlife of the "China Shock" New research by David Autor and colleagues David Dorn and Gordon Hanson shows that U.S. regions devastated by inexpensive manufacturing imports from China are still suffering economically.

		Parag Pathak: From fair schools to vaccine distribution Parag Pathak catches up with Science News about his efforts to make public education more equitable and his recent research on fair distribution of vaccines and other medical resources. Pathak was featured on the SN 10: Scientists to Watch list in 2019.

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