Experts in the News

Is there anything you should or shouldn't do before getting vaccinated? Baker Institute fellow Peter Hotez answered some common questions. 

How would President Biden's proposal to increase the federal minimum wage impact Texas? Child health policy fellow Quianta Moore and public finance fellow Joyce Beebe shared their insights.

“If we didn’t have these variants looming,” we would be in a good place, said health policy fellow Peter Hotez. If those variants take over by spring, “as many of us are predicting,” he said, “it changes everything. Now, we really have to vaccinate the American population by late spring, early summer.”

If the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development fails to reach a meaningful breakthrough on the digital tax overhaul, global growth could stall. Public finance fellow Joyce Beebe explained in an article for Law360. 

With a relatively low number of vaccinations per capita in Texas, there will be more new COVID-19 cases, warned health economics fellow Vivian Ho. "There is the health consequence, and there’s the economic consequence."  Ho holds the James A. Baker III Institute Chair in Health Economics.