This volume explores the production economic statistics that accurately depict the complex racial and ethnic diversity of the US population in the twenty-first century. The chapters examine the ...

This volume analyzes the responses of students, families, and the financial managers of higher education institutions to these challenges. It presents new insights on the substantial disparities in ...

This paper investigates whether economic hardship undermines preferences for honesty. We use controlled, high-stake measures ...

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We study the labor market effects of tenure-dependent severance pay systems that tie firing costs to workers’ accumulated earnings histories. We develop an overlapping-generations search-and-matching ...

Work requirements are often criticized for imposing administrative burdens that reduce access to benefits, yet prior research has struggled to isolate this mechanism from other sources of ...

The worsening mental health of young workers in the United States drives the disappearance of the U-shape in wellbeing and the hump-shape in illbeing in the last decade. Illbeing declines in age among ...

Around the world, we observe prevalent increases in the concentration of sales, net income, and equity capital over the past century. These trends hold in the aggregate and at the industry level.

This short note computes Trade Restrictiveness Index measures for current U.S. trade policy. Building on the ideas of Anderson and Neary (1996, 2005), the Trade Restrictiveness Index is the uniform ...

This paper develops a tractable economic model of AJI that treats adoption as an information problem: users care about local reliability, but typically observe only coarse, global quality signals. In ...

We measure how frontier research frames what is normatively at stake along the efficiency and equity dimension. We develop and validate an LLM-based measurement pipeline and apply it to 27,464 ...

This paper studies the critical but underexplored role of subcontracting in shaping the spatial and firm-level effects of federal government spending. Using newly available data on defense subcontract ...