Recently the global economy has experienced several major shocks yet EMEs have been remarkably resilient. Some of this improved performance can be attributed to prudent policies and stronger economic ...

The growing prevalence of cognitive impairment (CI) is one of the main drivers of age-related demand for health and long-term care (LTC). In Spain, CI is estimated to affect 18.5% of Spaniards over 65 ...

We develop a simple and intuitive Pigouvian perspective on optimal trade policy. Our approach unifies a wide range of rationales for taxing trade, from the classical optimal tariff argument to ...

We revisit the classic identification problem of separating supply and demand for a homogeneous good using data from multiple markets. We allow markets to be heterogeneous according to unobservables, ...

We interpret exchange rate and yield curve responses to the April 2, 2025 U.S. tariff announcement through the lens of an equilibrium model capturing the portfolio balance mechanism. Disciplined by ...

This paper studies social insurance with imperfect eligibility screening, focusing on Unemployment Insurance (UI) during its expansion in 2020 and 2021. We study the extent of imperfect screening by ...

We empirically investigate whether such “retrieval failures” distort consumption smoothing behavior among Zambian farmers, who derive their income from one annual harvest and then spend it down over ...

This study explores the effects of COVID-19 school closures on labor market outcomes of Canadian parents of school-aged children. Using newly collected data on grade-level-specific school closures ...

We provide descriptive evidence on women's experiences in platform-based driving and delivery work using survey and administrative data from India and Indonesia. Partnering with major two-wheeler ...

This paper examines the labor market effects of overtime coverage in the United States, where salaried workers are covered for overtime if their base pay falls below a legislated salary threshold.

We investigate the short- and long-run impacts of unexpected mortality on psychosocial health in the context of a large-scale high-mortality natural disaster, the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and ...

We harmonize survey data on interest rates paid by approximately 15,000 small and medium enterprises across 125 firm surveys and 285,000 households across 83 household surveys spanning developing and ...