We assemble a dataset of the universe of economics and business journal articles published since 1980 to assess differences in the levels…
2025, Paper: "“Nil desperandum”– “never despair”– said Horace more than two thousand years ago. This energizing admonition, along with the…
2025, Paper: "Wage inequality among workers has increased dramatically over the past 50 years (Song et al., 2019; Hoffmann et al., 2020).…
April 10, 2025, Paper: "The second Trump Administration is moving forward at an extraordinary pace. Widespread efforts to reduce government…
April 2025, Paper: "Food insecurity and poor nutrition afflict millions of Americans with low incomes. Three policy approaches to address…
2025, Paper: "We estimate the returns to IRS audits of taxpayers across the income distri- bution. We find an additional $1 spent auditing…
Sanctions on Venezuela Are Not Driving Migration to the US Southwest Border: An Empirical Assessment
March 2025, Paper: "After the decision of the Venezuelan regime to disregard the results of the presidential election of July 28, 2024, and…
March 2025, Paper: "We examine changes in the spatial distribution of good jobs across US commuting zones over 1980-2000 and 2000-2021. We…
2025, Paper: "As climate changes across the world, we can anticipate large flows of migrants both internally and internationally. This is…
This paper examines the murder of Savanna Greywind, a pregnant Native American woman in Fargo, North Dakota, in August 2017, through the…