Household production accounts for a significant fraction of carbon emissions and is driven by household's economizing and desire to reduce their own emissions, from Stephie Fried, @LagakosDavid, and Hannah Rhodenhiser nber.org/papers/w35945
An audit study finds that nursing homes practice selective admissions by payer, but model estimates suggest that this account for only a small portion of the quality gap, from @liraneinav, Amy Finkelstein, Jesse Gubb, @nealemahoney, and James Okun nber.org/papers/w35944
Comparing founders who build abroad or return home after foreign experience with comparable local founders in the same country, from Paul A. Gompers and Henry Woo nber.org/papers/w35943
Trade allows specialization, but specialization is risky. Workers avoid volatile sectors, often the ones where scale pays off most. Result: US gains from trade fall ~20 percent, from @xiaomaucsd and Natalia Ramondo nber.org/papers/w35942
Studying H-2A visas: migrants earn over $16,000 a season, send 70 percent home, and report high satisfaction with the program. Poverty falls, but wives' mental health worsens, from Melanie Morten, Beatriz Magaloni, Sebastián Cubillos, and Alice Yiqian Wang nber.org/papers/w35941
Small cash transfers to Zambian college students cut sexual activity, increased condom use, and improved partner quality, from @BauNatalie, @femonomics, and Bryce Millett Steinberg nber.org/papers/w35940
Using 1986–2019 data on 27 countries finds that family-friendly policies accounted for a substantial reduction in gender employment and earnings gaps and child penalties, from @FranBlau, Lawrence Kahn, Freddy Bachmann, @HelenBurkhardt, Leonardo Peñaloza-Pacheco, and David Titus nber.org/papers/w35939
Studying optimal design of income tax deductions for activities that are difficult for tax administrators to distinguish, such as deductions for business versus personal expenditures, from @jacobsgoldin, Sebastian Koehne, and Nicholas Lawson nber.org/papers/w35938
Reviewing puzzles in the literature on regional variations in health and health care, and suggesting a key role for health care productivity in explaining them, from Amy Finkelstein and @JonSkinner17 nber.org/papers/w35937
Using Medicare’s expanded coverage of clinical trial costs for elderly trial participants to investigate how lowering the cost of including one group shapes its representation, subsequent innovation, and product adoption, from @jenn_kao and @tamaroostrom nber.org/papers/w35936
Open call for papers, The Economic Implications of GLP-1 Therapies. Conference to be held in Cambridge, MA on March 4, 2027. Submit papers by 11:59pm EDT on December 15, 2026. More information: nber.org/calls-papers-and-pr…
Studying interventions intended to eliminate gender differences in labor market outcomes, principally wages, from Carla Varona Cervantes and Russell Cooper nber.org/papers/w35935
New country-level measures of productivity in collecting taxes and their role in economic development, from Radhika Goyal, Anders Jensen, @LagakosDavid, @AbdouNdiayeNYU, and Yuntian Zhao nber.org/papers/w35934
Albania banned religion in 1967, razing religious sites except the 6 percent listed as monuments in 1948. Where none survived, women’s employment rose more, from @RichMurphy_Econ and Shqiponja Telhaj nber.org/papers/w35933
France’s Visale rent insurance helps vulnerable tenants access housing and move to higher-wage areas at moderate public cost—but may raise rents for ineligible renters, from Thomas Bézy, @LevyAntoine, and Timothy McQuade nber.org/papers/w35932
Using the case study of California's $20 fast-food minimum wage to explore the sensitivity of synthetic control and synthetic difference-in-differences methods to researcher degrees of freedom, from @jeffreypclemens, Olivia Edwards, Jonathan Meer, and Joshua D. Nguyen nber.org/papers/w35931
Featured in the latest Bulletin on Entrepreneurship: Who Gets Ahead in Venture Capital: New Evidence from 100,000 Investors' Careers
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Finding moderate effects of most unconditional financial policies on college attendance, with small effects on completion conditional on attendance. By contrast, some merit-based incentives have substantial effects, from @douglasnharris99, Christopher R. Taber, and Yu (Alan) Yang nber.org/papers/w35930
Studying the role occupational ladders play in average wage growth and in the fanning out of wages over the life cycle, from Henry E. Siu, Kelly Foley, and Guido Matias Cortes nber.org/papers/w35929
Self-oriented central banks should care about currency misalignments. Cooperation isn't needed if policy rules are set before asset trading; setting them after lowers welfare, from @LouphouC and Charles Engel nber.org/papers/w35928
