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A geospatial approach to measuring economic activity

Ai, Jianwei; Arkolakis, Costas; Yang, Anton - 2025

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Revolving door laws and political selection

Fisman, Raymond; Leder-Luis, Jetson; O'Donnell, Catherine M. - 2025

Revolving door laws restrict public officials from representing private interests before government after leaving office. While these laws mitigate potential conflicts of interest, they also may affect the pool of candidates for public positions by lowering the financial benefits of holding...

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Metacognitive Awareness and Academic Performance

Apperson, Jarod T.; Jackson, Francesina; Viceisza, … - 2025

Roughly 25 percent of first-year college students do not return for a second year. This has led to a range of policies and interventions aimed at increasing college performance, persistence, and graduation. In this article, we assess whether cognitive strategy instruction (CSI) has the potential...

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Beliefs About Political News in the Run-up to an Election

Angelucci, Charles; Gutmann, Michel; Prat, Andrea - 2024

This paper develops a model of news discernment to explore the influence of elections on the formation of partisan-driven parallel information universes. Using survey data from news quizzes administered during and outside the 2020 U.S. presidential election, the model shows that partisan...

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Why does working from home vary across countries and people?

Zarate, Pablo; Dolls, Mathias; Davis, Steven J.; Bloom, … - 2024

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The Impact of Price Transparency in Outpatient Provider Markets

Barnes, Kayleigh; Glied, Sherry; Handel, Benjamin R.; … - 2024

Medical provider price transparency is often touted as a way to lower health care spending. But the impact of price transparency is theoretically ambiguous: it could lower health care spending via increased consumer price shopping or improved insurer bargaining but could also raise health care...

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Finance Without Exotic Risk

Bordalo, Pedro; Gennaioli, Nicola; La Porta, Rafael; … - 2024

We address the joint hypothesis problem in cross-sectional asset pricing by using measured analyst expectations of earnings growth. We construct a firm-level measure of Expectations Based Returns (EBRs) that uses analyst forecast errors and revisions and shuts down any cross-sectional...

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The Causal Effects of Global Supply Chain Disruptions on Macroeconomic Outcomes : Evidence and Theory

Bai, Xiwen; Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Li, Yiliang; … - 2024

We study the causal effects and policy implications of global supply chain disruptions. We construct a new index of supply chain disruptions from the mandatory automatic identification system data of container ships, developing a novel spatial clustering algorithm that determines real-time...

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Outsourcing Policy and Worker Outcomes : Causal Evidence from a Mexican Ban

Estefan, Alejandro; Gerhard, Roberto; Kaboski, Joseph Paul - 2024

A weakening of labor protection policies is often invoked as one cause of observed monopsony power and the decline in labor's share of income, but little evidence exists on the causal impact of labor policies on wage markdowns. Using confidential Mexican economic census data from 1994 to 2019,...

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Not in My Backyard? The Local Impact of Wind and Solar Parks in Brazil

Scheifele, Fabian; Popp, David - 2024

Support from local citizens is important for the scale-up of renewable energy. We investigate the impact of utility-scale wind and solar parks on employment, GDP and public finances in Brazilian municipalities using a difference-in-differences design with matching. We find a positive employment...

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