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Economics Professors Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman were featured in an article in The New York Times titled, "How California’s Ultrarich Are Trying to Stop the World’s First Billionaire Tax."

Control of Congress is the biggest issue at stake in November’s elections. A close second might be the fight over a ballot initiative in California, Proposition 40, that seeks to impose a wealth tax on the state’s roughly 250 billionaires. If approved, it will be the world’s first billionaire tax.

At a town hall in August, one of its chief proponents, Representative Ro Khanna...

AI models are always hungry for vast amounts of information, so it can learn how to give us human-like responses. For example, OpenAI’s GPT-3 trained on 570 gigabytes of text, or roughly 225 billion words.

But children and babies, however, do not require an enormous pool of information to learn how language works. They listen and try things like imitating the sounds of people around them – a different way of learning that’s more efficient and consumes much less energy.

Is it possible for AI to learn more like young...

Trying to be happy can sometimes have the opposite effect.

A new review of previous psychology research, titled “The pursuit of happiness: pitfalls and promises,” by Iris Mauss, a UC Berkeley psychology professor, and Brett Ford, a University of Toronto psychology professor and Berkeley psychology alumna, explores this happiness paradox. The researchers examined findings from 20 years of research on the...

Before a child even enters the world, the conditions into which they are born are already shaping their health and future.

Hilary Hoynes, UC Berkeley chancellor’s professor of economics and public policy and co-director of the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Wealth and Income Inequality, has spent decades researching how different economic and social factors affect children’s lives, and how government policy can help address...