Brookings Papers on Economic Activity: Fall 2021

The Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (BPEA) is a semi-annual academic conference and journal that pairs rigorous research with real-time policy analysis to address the most urgent economic challenges of the day. Working drafts of the papers are presented at the conference typically held twice each year. The final papers and discussant remarks from each conference are subsequently published in the journal several months later.POPP, VONA, MARIN and CHEN on The Employment Impact of a Green Fiscal Push: Evidence from the American Recovery and Reinvestment ActBUCKMAN, CHOI, DALY and SEITELMAN on The Economic Gains from EquityCHERRY, JIANG, MATVOS, PISKORSKI and SERU on Government and Private Household Debt Relief during COVID-19RENNERT, PREST, PIZER, NEWELL, ANTHOFF, KINGDON, RENNELS, COOKE, RAFTERY, ŠEVČÍKOVÁ and ERRICKSON on The Social Cost of Carbon:Advances in Long-Term Probabilistic Projections of Population, GDP, Emissions, and Discount RatesREIS on Losing the Inflation AnchorAUTOR, DORN and HANSON on On the Persistence of the China Shock