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2026
Karen Dynan, Kent Smetters, and Ellen Zentner. 2026. “Whither the Federal Budget”. Business Economics. doi:https://doi.org/10.1057/s11369-026-00447-4
Karen Dynan, Kent Smetters, and Ellen Zentner. 2026. “Whither the Federal Budget”. Business Economics. doi:https://doi.org/10.1057/s11369-026-00447-4
Karen Dynan and David Wilcox. 2026. “The COVID Era Inflation Surge: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Lessons”
Karen Dynan and David Wilcox. 2026. “The COVID Era Inflation Surge: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Lessons”
2025
Karen Dynan. 2025. “Review of The Measure of Progress: Counting What Really Matters by Diane Coyle”. Journal of Economic Literature, 63, 4
Karen Dynan. 2025. “Review of The Measure of Progress: Counting What Really Matters by Diane Coyle”. Journal of Economic Literature, 63, 4
2025. “Putting US Fiscal Policy on a Sustainable Path”. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 39, 4 (Fall)
2025. “Putting US Fiscal Policy on a Sustainable Path”. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 39, 4 (Fall)
Karen Dynan. 2025. “Reclaiming a Policy Role for Economists”. IMF Finance & Development Magazine
Karen Dynan. 2025. “Reclaiming a Policy Role for Economists”. IMF Finance & Development Magazine
Karen Dynan and Douglas Elmendorf. 2025. “Changes in Racial Gaps in Retirement Security over Time”. In Reducing Retirement Inequality: Building Wealth and Old-Age Resilience, edited by Olivia S. Mitchell and Nikolia Roussanov. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Karen Dynan and Douglas Elmendorf. 2025. “Changes in Racial Gaps in Retirement Security over Time”. In Reducing Retirement Inequality: Building Wealth and Old-Age Resilience, edited by Olivia S. Mitchell and Nikolia Roussanov. Oxford: Oxford University Press
We explore changes over time in how financially prepared Americans are for retirement, with a focus on the relative positions of Black and White families. Our data source, the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, oversamples lower-income families, allowing for...
Karen Dynan. 2025. “Report of the Committee on Economic Statistics”. AEA Papers and Proceedings, 115, May 2025
Karen Dynan. 2025. “Report of the Committee on Economic Statistics”. AEA Papers and Proceedings, 115, May 2025
Karen Dynan and Douglas Elmendorf. 2025. “Lessons for Automatic Fiscal Stabilizers from the Great Recession and the COVID Recession”
Karen Dynan and Douglas Elmendorf. 2025. “Lessons for Automatic Fiscal Stabilizers from the Great Recession and the COVID Recession”
2024
Karen Dynan. 2024. “Report of the Committee on Economic Statistics”. AEA Papers and Proceedings , 114, Pp. 818–21
Karen Dynan. 2024. “Report of the Committee on Economic Statistics”. AEA Papers and Proceedings , 114, Pp. 818–21
Karen Dynan and Louise Sheiner. 2024. “GDP As a Measure of Economic Well-Being”. In The Measure of Economies: Measuring Productivity in an Age of Technological Change, edited by Marshall B. Reinsdorf and Louise Sheiner. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press
Karen Dynan and Louise Sheiner. 2024. “GDP As a Measure of Economic Well-Being”. In The Measure of Economies: Measuring Productivity in an Age of Technological Change, edited by Marshall B. Reinsdorf and Louise Sheiner. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press
Karen Dynan and Douglas Elmendorf. 2024. “Fiscal Policy and the Pandemic-Era Surge in US Inflation: Lessons for the Future”
Karen Dynan and Douglas Elmendorf. 2024. “Fiscal Policy and the Pandemic-Era Surge in US Inflation: Lessons for the Future”
In the United States, massive fiscal expansion during the pandemic protected households and helped to return output and unemployment nearly to pre-pandemic expectations by the end of 2021—a sharp contrast with the slow recovery from the previous US...
2023
Anna Stansbury, Jacob Funk Kirkegaard, and Karen Dynan. 2023. “Gender Gaps in South Korea’s Labour Market: Children Explain Most of the Gender Employment Gap, But Little of the Gender Wage Gap”. Applied Economics Letters, Pp. 1-6. doi:10.1080/13504851.2023.2206103
Anna Stansbury, Jacob Funk Kirkegaard, and Karen Dynan. 2023. “Gender Gaps in South Korea’s Labour Market: Children Explain Most of the Gender Employment Gap, But Little of the Gender Wage Gap”. Applied Economics Letters, Pp. 1-6. doi:10.1080/13504851.2023.2206103
South Korea’s gender wage and employment gaps are among the largest in the OECD. Using labour force survey data over 2010–19, we estimate gender wage and employment gaps, and child earnings penalties, for women aged 25–54. We show (i) that the large...