A study from JAMA Pediatrics compares states that have permissive gun laws with others that have strict regulations. The states with tougher rules did not see a rise in gun deaths among children and teens.

Letter from Department of Homeland Security signals new escalation in stand-off with university

Programme pioneered by INET Oxford's Lukas Lehner and Max Kasy receives green light for further roll-out.

Senior Faculty Pledging to Donate a Portion of Salary in Defense of University Community We are heartened by the University’s rejection of the Trump administration’s unlawful demands. We also recogn...

(May 2025) - Since 2018, UK firms with at least 250 employees have been mandated to publicly disclose gender equality indicators. Exploiting variations in this mandate across firm size and time, we sh...

This book introduces applied researchers to modern Differences-in-Differences (DID) methods, that they can use to obtain credible answers to hard causal inferen

Data visionary Hans Rosling looks back at the encounters that shaped his world view.

Academics from US hoping to escape funding freezes and ideological impositions are being actively recruited

Neil Young will play a free show in Ukraine with the Chrome Hearts before kicking off his European summer tour.

ALT: a blue flag with yellow stars in a circle

The National Bank of Ukraine has decided to open a special fundraising account to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Nobel Prize-winning economist Eugene Fama argues that Bitcoin is fundamentally flawed and predicts it has a near-certain chance of becoming worthless within a decade. In a conversation with Luigi Zing...

Herbert Kickl verhandelt an der zuständigen Gruppe vorbei mit ÖVP-Chef Stocker. Differenzen gibt es auch bei der Landesverteidigung abseits von Sky Shield

We present an approach for estimating the fraction of text in a large corpus which is likely to be substantially modified or produced by a large language model (LLM). Our maximum likelihood model...

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IDEAS is a central index of economics and finance research, including working papers, articles and software code

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...

WIFO Research Briefs, 2024, (71461), 12 Seiten

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Veblen on conspicuous consumption and conspicuous leisure.

We investigate how Oxfam use wealth stats to illustrate global inequality

We spend more and more of our lives staring at screens. Our cellphones, smartwatches and laptops allow us to communicate instantly with people anywhere in the world, and quickly look up obscure facts....

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It’s the first court to find that the disqualification clause of the 14th Amendment applies to Mr. Trump, in addition to affirming that he engaged in insurrection.

Daron Acemoglu urges Democrats to support working-class interests and priorities after many years of neglect.

(Fall 2023) - We undertake an assessment of our two decades of research on financial literacy, building on our empirical research and theoretical work casting financial knowledge as a form of investme...

How to Succeed at Failing, Part 4: Extreme Resiliency - Freakonomics