Abstract. We measure which economic topics are top of mind using quarterly German household and firm panels from 2020 to 2024, a period that spans the post

Abstract. This paper provides evidence on how wage inequality among workers affects the labor movement using three complementary research designs: a vignet

Abstract. There is a large latent workforce in developing countries that consists of hundreds of millions of women who prefer to have paid work and yet are

Abstract. School assignment policies are a key lever for expanding access to high-performing schools and promoting racial and socioeconomic integration. Fo

Abstract. This paper provides the first comprehensive global evidence on people’s fairness and efficiency preferences, beliefs about the sources of inequal

Abstract. We study the history and geography of wealth accumulation in the United States using newly collected historical property tax records from the ear

Abstract. We study the causal impacts of income on a rich array of employment outcomes, leveraging an experiment in which 1,000 low-income individuals were

Abstract. Information often spreads and influences beliefs regardless of its reliability. We show that this occurs in part because indicators of reliabilit

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Abstract. We test for stereotyping—the exaggeration of representative traits—in a high-stakes economic environment. Using both surveys administered among u

Abstract. We study how people’s beliefs about the economy covary with household-level events, utilizing a unique link between Danish administrative data an

Abstract. This paper investigates how a government should manage international reserves when it faces the risk of a rollover crisis. We ask, should the gov

Abstract. How does proximity to coworkers affect training and productivity? We study software engineers at a Fortune 500 firm from 2019 to 2024, leveraging

Abstract. Theory predicts that outsourcing public services to the private sector can reduce costs and improve efficiency, but can also induce cost-cutting

Abstract. We study rainmaking as an instrumental religious belief. We present a model in which a religious leader tries to persuade people to believe. Pray

Abstract. This study examines how the American Medical Association (AMA) helped shape the development of the U.S. health insurance system in the critical p

Abstract. Since 1967, all French firms with more than 100 employees have been required to share a fraction of their excess profits with their employees. Th

Abstract. Motivated by recent concerns surrounding the use of third-party pricing algorithms by competing firms, we study repeated Bertrand competition whe

Abstract. This paper examines the global adoption of technology in the late nineteenth century. We construct several novel datasets to test the idea that t

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Abstract. We argue that the Democratic Party’s evolution on economic policy helps explain partisan realignment by education. First, we document that educat

Abstract. We study technology sophistication using a novel approach that measures the sophistication of the most advanced (MAX) and the most widely used (M

Abstract. Why do managers matter for firm performance? This paper provides evidence of the critical role of managers in matching workers to jobs within the

Abstract. Do men negatively respond when women first enter an occupation? We answer this question by studying the end of one of the final explicit occupati

Abstract. Women continue to be underrepresented in corporate leadership positions. This paper studies the role of social connections in women’s career adva

Abstract. This paper shows that CEO’s trust enhances innovation within firms, providing a novel micro-foundation for the well-known trust-growth relationsh

Abstract. Empirical studies find that the pass-through of input cost changes to prices is incomplete: a 10 percent increase in costs causes downstream pric

Abstract. This paper develops a New Keynesian model with sovereign default risk. Inflation is set by forward-looking firms, monetary policy is an interest

Abstract. This paper estimates that the macroeconomic damages from climate change are an order of magnitude larger than previously thought. Exploiting natu

Abstract. We study the impact of conflict-induced displacement on human capital and occupational shifts, focusing on the Mozambican civil war (1977 - 1992)

Abstract. We develop a system of disaggregated economic accounts. The system breaks down national accounting positions into bilateral flows between consist

Abstract. We provide quasi-experimental evidence of how an innovative market-based solution using remote-sensing technology can mitigate drought-induced co

Abstract. This paper studies the effects of automation in a task-based economy in which some jobs pay workers rents—wages above their outside option. We sh

Abstract. We develop a model that integrates modern theories of labor market flows with nominal wage rigidities to study the consequences of inflation on t

Abstract. Does information about the long-run financial costs of reduced labor supply increase mothers’ working hours? We document descriptively that long-

Abstract. We introduce and validate a novel approach to identifying good managers. In a pre-registered lab experiment, we causally identify managerial cont

Abstract. Aspirations may condition the future-oriented choices of individuals and thus may play a role in the persistence of poverty or the effort to brea

Abstract. This paper investigates whether virtual contact, initiated through a documentary film, can promote interethnic harmony. We carried out a cluster-

Abstract. This paper explores the relationship between economic growth and trust in government using variation in GDP growth experienced over a lifetime si

Abstract. We show that intergenerational mobility changed rapidly by race and class in recent decades in the U.S. and study the causal mechanisms underlyin

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