With an increasing prevalence of obesity, the association between obesity and income is of increasing interest. Building on recent Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS) on polygenic risk scores of obesity, after instrumenting individual-year BMI on BMI polygenic score, BMI lowers income between...

The paper examines the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions on the initial exponential growth of the infected population and the final exponential decay of the infected population. We employ a Bayesian dynamic model to test whether there is learning, a random walk pattern, or another type...

Over the past decade, the rise of blockchain technology has led to the emergence of a growing number of decentralized platforms that are governed less by platform owners and more through community efforts. The emergence of blockchain platforms offers a unique opportunity to examine alternative...

Innovation speed is central to competitive advantage. Since innovation is a complex process of bundling technologies and solving problems, enhancing innovation speed could require ambidextrous search strategies. Empirical work on innovation search has identified both tradeoffs and synergies...

This paper examines whether changes in residential mobility (or more presence at home) in US states during COVID-19 influenced changes in the psychological distress of individuals. Based on the first-difference model, we identify the effects of residential mobility (i.e., a proxy for the...