The energy transition requires rapid, coordinated retirement of essentially all fossil fuel infrastructure with careful attention to impacts on workers and affected communities. Experience with the...

County-level U.S. election results: House, Senate and President by county, 1990-2024. Candidate-level, every source documented. CSV/Parquet, CC BY 4.0. - pmheideman/us-county-election-results

Public-use data and documentation from OpenResearch’s randomized study of unconditional cash transfers.

More than 5 million people are no longer getting food aid in the wake of a slew of cuts and changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. As changes to the program continue to unfold, rura...

The University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma Board of Regents made major policy and structural changes on Thursday. Hundreds of people watched, urging them to reconsider.

The most AI-exposed new college grads have initial employment declines of 5pp and earnings declines of 13%, partially driven by shifts to lower-paying sectors.

by Gernot Wagner

Amazon, Meta and Google risk losing decadeslong exemptions due to a backlash against their facilities

(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.