Download or read book Brookings Papers on Economic Activity: Spring 2018 written by Janice Eberly and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (BPEA) provides academic and business economists, government officials, and members of the financial and business communities with timely research on current economic issues. Contents: Is Automation Labor Share-Displacing? Productivity Growth, Employment, and the Labor Share David Autor and Anna Salomons Safety Net Investments in Children Hilary W. Hoynes and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach Jobs for the Heartland: Place-Based Polices in 21st-Century America Benjamin Austin, Edward Glaeser, and Lawrence Summers Macroeconomic Effects of the 2017 Tax Reform Robert J. Barro and Jason Furman Liquidity Crises in the Mortgage Market You Suk Kim, Steven M. Laufer, Karen Pence, Richard Stanton, and Nancy Wallace Mortgage Market Design: Lessons from the Great Recession Tomasz Piskorski and Amit Seru