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Alicia Sasser Modestino Featured in The William T. Grant Foundation News: Reflections from the Reducing Inequality Convening: Research During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Midori Morikawa, Office of Economic Development in the Boston Mayor’s Office, and Alicia Modestino, Northeastern University, shared how they built upon…

Alicia Sasser Modestino in Boston Globe: Are downsizing baby boomers the key to easing the housing crunch?

Almost everyone who’s been looking to buy a house or condo around Boston in the past few years has encountered…

Alicia Sasser Modestino in Forbes: Beware Degree Inflation In The Coming Recession

The Bureau of Economic Analysis announced on Wednesday that GDP in the first quarter of 2020 had fallen at an…

Alicia Sasser Modestino in Marketplace: Teenagers in Search of Summer Jobs Are in Luck

It’s a good time to be a vaccinated teen in the job market. Teenagers are now employed at levels that…

Alicia Sasser Modestino in NBC News: Teen Workers Fill Job Shortage, but What Happens When Summer Fades?

As restrictions ease and customers return, workers with child care responsibilities or concern about Covid-19 have been hanging back —…

Alicia Sasser Modestino in News@Northeastern: Do women in economics face extra scrutiny?

In the field of economics, seminars serve as the platform through which researchers disseminate new work, practitioners test out new…

Alicia Sasser Modestino in News@Northeastern: Here’s Why The US Labor Shortage May Not Be Such a Bad Thing

As businesses in the United States begin to reopen after the COVID-19 pandemic, employers are replacing the “closed” signs in…

Alicia Sasser Modestino in News@Northeastern: When The Pandemic Put Summer Jobs At Risk In Boston, Northeastern Stepped In To Help

Every summer, thousands of Boston youth participate in the city’s Summer Youth Employment Program—a program that connects teens and young…

Alicia Sasser Modestino in Project Syndicate: The Economic Anti-Consensus

Read the full article. Excerpt: With the Delta variant fueling fourth and fifth waves of COVID-19 infections, digital technologies transforming…

Hayley Bailley, 17, from Irwin, Pa., said she was glad to get a summer job at Kennywood amusement park paying $9 an hour. Then, she heard that the park was lifting pay to $13 an hour.

Alicia Sasser Modestino in The New York Times: The Luckiest Workers in America? Teenagers.

Roller-coaster operators and lemonade slingers at Kennywood amusement park, a Pittsburgh summer staple, won’t have to buy their own uniforms…

Alicia Sasser Modestino in: Something’s Got To Give’: Health Risks, Lack Of Child Care Force Many To Leave Jobs

During the pandemic, a lot of people have lost work. In Massachusetts, more than 1.6 million residents have applied for…

Alicia Sasser Modestino on Marketplace: How Vaccine Hesitancy Could Affect the Economy

Listen to the Marketplace podcast episode here. Excerpt: With the school year beginning and the U.S. experiencing an uptick COVID-19…