We analyze daily mortgage rates posted by online lenders at the price comparison site, Microsurf. While cost shocks occurred almost daily in our sample, quoted mortgage rates are surprisingly rigid: Only 16 percent of the posted rates represent changes. However, firms that adjusted rates in...

We investigate the relationship between cell phones and brain cancer using brain cancer death rates for 86 countries between 1990 and 2014 from the World Health Organization and country-level mobile phone subscription rates from the World Bank. We estimate difference-in-difference models...

We perform an econometric analysis of the determinants of sexual violence against women and reporting behavior by victims of sexual violence in the United States during the era of the women's movement. Drawing on the sexual-competition theory of rape, we identify instruments to correct for...