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Capital-Skill Complementarity Beyond Firm Boundaries
New machinery is argued to increase relative demand for skilled labor, but firm-level evidence does not show this shift at investing firms.
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Voluntary Corporate Climate Targets in a Patchwork Policy Landscape
Many large publicly-traded companies adopt voluntary greenhouse gas emission reduction commitments amid a fragmented public policy landscape, which this paper explores.
Global
Avoiding Regulation: Evidence from Nursing Homes
The study examines how firms strategically respond to threshold-based regulations, documenting significant bunching in California nursing homes due to additional staffing requirements.
Americas
How Heavily Are PhD Students Offloading Their Scientific Writing to AI? Evidence from US STEM PhD Dissertations
Large language models are rapidly spreading in science, raising concerns that using AI for research writing may affect the development of scientific expertise.
Africa
Crowding Out Temptation: Experimental Evidence on Savings and Health Behaviors in Kenya
A randomized controlled trial in Kenya assessed the health and economic impacts of alcohol use, transactional sex, and gambling.
Global
Schooling and Political Activism in the Early Civil Rights Era
This working paper examines whether the early 20th century Rosenwald school construction program increased political activity, specifically NAACP involvement.
Global
A Framework for Integrating Climate Goals into Trade Agreements
This working paper addresses the issue that trade agreements have largely evolved separately from climate policy.
Global
Welfare Analysis with Complementarities: When Direct and Total Responses Are Sufficient
Complementarities can significantly impact welfare, but quantifying these effects appears to require separately identifying and valuing underlying mechanisms. This working paper addresses this issue.
Americas
Tax Planning and Multinational Behavior
This working paper uses newly linked IRS data to examine how US multinationals employ tax-planning structures exploiting mismatches between US and foreign tax laws.
Global
Gang Crackdowns
A working paper examining the consequences of restoring state authority in areas controlled by criminal organizations, using household surveys, administrative records, and detailed maps.
Americas
Limits to Arbitrage and Prediction Market Efficiency: the Case of PredictIt
PredictIt is a CFTC-regulated US prediction market focused on political outcomes that attracted many participants and maintained liquidity during 2016-22.
Global
High and Rising Institutional Concentration of Award-Winning Economists
The study analyzes the academic affiliations of nearly 6,000 award-winning researchers across 18 major fields in natural sciences, engineering, and social sciences.
Global
Living in a Ghost Town: The Geography of Depopulation and Aging
This working paper examines how depopulation and aging vary across regions within a country and their effects on overall economic activity and regional dynamics.
Global
Large Language Models as Voting Mechanisms
This working paper develops a microeconomic framework to understand the role of large language models in providing economic and financial advice.
Global
Aging Out of Coverage: Lessons from the West Virginia $1,000 Adult Dental Benefit
This working paper examines dental service utilization during the recent implementation of an adult Medicaid dental benefit in West Virginia for those aged 21 and over.
Global
The Geopolitical Trap: How Great Power Rivalry Protects Rising Powers
This working paper analyzes why rising powers survive periods when established states could suppress them, focusing on commitment problems highlighted in preventive war theories.
Global
Latent Human Capital: How Early Investments in Parents Buffer Against Future Schooling Shocks
This NBER working paper examines whether early investments in parents remain beneficial even if the effects on children diminish quickly.
Global
The Investment Channel of Monetary Policy: Disentangling Firm Heterogeneity
Researchers studying monetary policy transmission at the firm level typically consider heterogeneity based on a few firm characteristics such as size.
Global
Estimating Heterogeneous Impacts with Endogenous Participation and Non-Compliance
This working paper addresses the estimation of heterogeneous impacts in a randomized controlled trial where heterogeneous status is endogenous.
Global
Are Prediction Markets Politically Biased?
The paper analyzes prediction market returns amid concerns that these markets may serve as conduits for political bias.
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