Back in the olden days when I ran the Dallas Fed, we had an extensive outreach program for economic education, including seminars for teachers who taught economics in high school, often without much ...

The official pretext for the Russian TV station Dozhd, or TV Rain, being taken off air as part of the Putin regime's recent crackdown on independent media was a counterfactual. A poll asked viewers if ...

In PSCI 3211 The Politics of Economic Inequality in the U.S., the goals of the course include: understanding the political causes of economic inequality; identifying the political factors that cause ...

In the 1993 film Groundhog Day, Phil Connors lives through the same day again and again and again and again…for years. After an initial shock, he realizes that this is a great oppportunity for ...

Artificial intelligence is increasingly being rolled out all around the world to help make decisions in our lives, whether it’s loan decisions by banks, medical diagnoses, or US law enforcement ...

History is never merely a record of what happened; it is also haunted by what might have happened otherwise. This is the realm of the counterfactual: thinking about history through "what if" scenarios ...

A new kind of machine-learning model is set to improve automated decision making in finance, health care, ad targeting, and more. A new kind of machine-learning model built by a team of researchers at ...