Last month, economist Matthias Doepke packed up three decades of his life in the United States and resigned from his job at Northwestern University. He sold his house in Evanston, Illinois, and joined his wife and three children in London. Trump proposes unprecedented budget cuts to US science Doepke will continue his research, which explores how economic development influences families and gender equality, at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he has held a position since 2022. Doepke's move has been driven by the drastic changes imposed on US science by the Trump administration. In the roughly four months since his inauguration, Trump's government has begun dismantling US research agencies ' sacking scientists, terminating grants and slashing budgets ' and sought to exert increased control over universities. Doepke first considered leaving the United States in 2016, after Trump's first election win. In 2022, he moved with his family to the United Kingdom...
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