The fear surrounding ICE raids made it harder for childcare centers to hold onto immigration workers, with implications for the entire economy.

Our host, Seth Gershenson, speaks to Pierre Koning and Carlos Riumalló-Herl, recipients of the 2025 Vernon Memorial Award, about their article “Selective exercise of discretion in disability insurance...

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As global conflicts grow, new evidence from Afghanistan shows that girls exposed to war violence in utero suffer long-term setbacks in learning and development. Addressing these hidden costs of confli...

We use a baby formula “food scare” in Israel in 2003 as a plausible natural experiment to study the causal relationship between breastfeeding and mothers’ return to work after childbirth. Analysis of...

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We study how civilian complaint investigators affect officer behavior in Chicago. We exploit quasi-random assignment of complaints to supervising investigators and use variation in whether supervisor...

The 2nd UAM-UJI Workshop on the Economics of Health and Human Capital will take place in Castellón de la Plana on the 20th of June 2025. The workshop is jointly organised by Universidad Autónoma de Ma...

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Join our Host Seth Gershenson as he speaks to Professor Elaine Hill of the University of Rochester about the consequences of modest levels of drinking water contamination that are compliant with feder...