Consumer prices in the United States rose at an annualized rate of 7.7 percent in October, the ninth straight month above seven percent,…
We use a lab-in-the-field experiment to explore the influence of parents and peers in shaping adolescents’ beliefs on whether they are…
We apply deep learning to daytime satellite imagery to predict changes in income and population at high spatial resolution in US data. For…
The share of US residents who were born in Latin America and the Caribbean plateaued recently, after a half century of rapid growth. Our…
COVID-19 vaccines are widely available in wealthy countries, yet many people remain unvaccinated. Understanding the effectiveness -- or…
This article examines the consequences and causes of low enrollment of Black patients in clinical trials. We develop a simple model of…
We study the effects of Secure Communities, an immigration enforcement program that dramatically increased interior removals of Hispanic…
This paper documents the impact of popular media on racial hate by examining the first American blockbuster: 1915’s The Birth of a Nation…
This paper synthesizes what economists have learned about human capital since Becker (1962) into four stylized facts. First, human capital…
There is increasing optimism that the worst of the pandemic may be behind us. Whether the Omicron variants were the last major spikes of…