We measure inequities from the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality and hospitalizations in the United States during the early months of the…
I examine the specialization of US commuting zones in AI-related occupations over the 2000 to 2018 period. I define AI-related jobs based…
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The slow rollout of vaccines against SARS-CoV2, the virus that causes Covid-19 disease, and the emergence of viral variants that threaten…
We study the contribution of economic conditions to the success of the first avowedly nativist political party in the United States. The…
Roughly a thousand people are killed by American law enforcement officers each
year, accounting for more than 5% of all homicides. We…
Inequalities in voter participation between groups of the population pose a problem for democratic representation. We use administrative…
Nearly a thousand officer-involved killings occur each year in the United States. This paper documents the large, racially-disparate…
We develop new quasi-experimental tools to measure racial discrimination, due to either racial bias or statistical discrimination, in the…
Policymakers and budgetary analysts have long argued that roads are heavily subsidized. The diffusion of spending among federal, state, and…
We study the drivers of financial distress using a large-scale field experiment that offered randomly selected borrowers a combination of (…