We assemble a dataset of the universe of economics and business journal articles published since 1980 to assess differences in the levels and trends of the global distribution of authorship in economi
We explore changes over time in how financially prepared Americans are for retirement, with a focus on the relative positions of Black and White families.
Behaviorally-informed “nudges” are widely used in government outreach, but face criticism for being too modest to address poverty at scale.
Community-based targeting, in which communities allocate social assistance using local information about who is poor, in experimental settings leads to nuanced allocations that reflect local concepts
Objective: We assess how the distribution of parents across firms contributes to parenthood wage gaps in a low-wage US labor market and examine the role of understudied compensating differentials rele
Advances in the scale and sophistication of individual income data compiled across high-income countries have enabled researchers to measure inequality and intergenerational mobility at a highly granu
Since the mid-1970s, there has been a sharp rise in the prevalence of “bad jobs” in the U.S. labor market, characterized by stagnant wages, unstable work schedules, and limited fringe benefits.
Intergenerational mobility captures the distance between the socioeconomic positions of parents versus their adult children.
Does a woman’s take-up of government benefits vary with her perception of how they will be shared within the household?
Comparing measures of work time in the recall CPS-ASEC data with contemporaneous measures reveals many logical inconsistencies and probable errors.
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