Abstract. This article uses labor force surveys from 160 countries to build a new microdatabase on hours worked covering 97% of the world population in cro

Abstract. This article constructs the first global data set on intersectoral capital service expenditures. I use these data to disaggregate capital service

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

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

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 explore the mechanics of empathy. We show that information about an outgroup can activate and magnify empathy when presented in conjunction wi

Abstract. We study worker noncompete clauses in a large field experiment with two finance firms. Across ~14,000 job offers to freelance recruiters on short

Abstract. If unions raise worker wages, who pays? We provide a comprehensive assessment of firm responses to increased unionization, using changes in the t

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

Abstract. Investors’ return expectations are pivotal in stock markets, but the reasoning behind these expectations is not well understood. This article exp

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

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

Abstract. People may fail to recall and use information they already know when making decisions. We empirically investigate whether such “retrieval failure

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

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Abstract. We propose a tractable model in which risk, at both the micro and macro levels, is endogenous and driven by incentives. In the model, each firm c

Abstract. People may fail to recall and use information they already know when making decisions. We empirically investigate whether such “retrieval failure

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

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

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

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

Abstract. This article examines the global adoption of technology in the late nineteenth century. We construct several novel data sets to test the idea tha

Abstract. We present a theory of choice in which attention to the features of options is determined by the decision maker’s categorization of the current p

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

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

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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