Other industrialized countries have adopted policies that simultaneously promote early child care and gender equality. In both, the United States lags significantly. Many economists claim that the lack of such policies will reduce the nation's productivity. The authors analyze the policies of...

Many economists dismiss the relevance of inequality (if everybody's income goes up, who cares if inequality is up too?), and argue that only poverty alleviation should matter. This note shows that we all do care about inequality, and to hold that we should be concerned with poverty solely and...