Author: Rick Ankrum

Why Do Some Countries Stay Poor?

This week for Ask an Economist, I have a question from a reader named Mark. He says, “I’ve worked with immigrants that recently moved to the US, and workers still living in their native country and working for me remotely.…

Impact of IRA on drugs prices

How much money will IRA save Medicare? A paper by Hernandez et al. (2023) aims to answer this question. The methods they use are as follows: Based on this approach, the authors find that: …