School choice is necessary for all children to reach their full potential. But it isn’t sufficient.

Manisha Shah discusses the factors that drive intimate partner violence and the impact of policies aimed at reducing it in low- and middle-income countries.

We've reached our 250th anniversary as a stuck country. It's more than just poverty, loneliness, or a lack of opportunity -- and it is one of the biggest threats to our public health.

Joan Birman thought her major discoveries were behind her. Then came an email from a young neighbor — a girl who knew little but wanted to learn.

Resource scarcity increases discriminatory behaviors and beliefs, psychology experiments show. Now, a first-of-its-kind LDI study in the American Economic Review shows that resource discrimination…

(Forthcoming Article) - Many environmental hazards have long-run health effects, but quasi-experimental studies typically measure outcomes and treatment over short time periods. We develop a new framework for quantifying the effect of air pollution exposure on life expectancy. Using daily changes in wind direction as an instrument for air pollution, we first charac- terize the dynamic mortality effects of short-run exposure. We then incorporate these estimates into a demographic model to quantify the lifelong effects of a permanent re- duction in air pollution exposure. Ninety percent of the survival benefits accrue after the first fifty years of life.

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LDI Fellow Atheendar Venkataramani discusses why Americans feel “stuck,” how this is a threat to public health, and offers potential solutions.

Academic was pronounced dead at his home in south London after police called to address after 3pm on Friday

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.

We've reached our 250th anniversary as a stuck country. It's more than just poverty, loneliness, or a lack of opportunity -- and it is one of the biggest threats to our public health.

We’ve reached our 250th anniversary as a stuck country. It’s more than just poverty, loneliness, or a lack of opportunity — and it is one of the biggest threats to our public health.

We’ve reached our 250th anniversary as a stuck country. It’s more than just poverty, loneliness, or a lack of opportunity — and it is one of the biggest threats to our public health.

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

Two teams, nearly the same question, nearly the same data—and a revealing difference in what the papers ask the evidence to do