We investigate the informal influence of political leaders' spouses on the subnational allocation of foreign aid. Building new worldwide datasets on personal characteristics of political leaders and their spouses as well as on geocoded development aid projects (including new data on 19 Western...

We study the impact of web search personalization on ideological segregation in search results. We deploy 150 synthetic internet users with randomized partisan preferences across 25 US cities. These users generate authentic browsing histories and are active during the US 2020 election and its...