Background: Little is known about the impact of environmental exposures on mortality risk after a myocardial infarction (MI). Objective:…
We use data on stock portfolios of Norwegian households to show that stock market wealth increases entrepreneurship by relaxing financial…
Low- and middle-income nations host 76 percent of the world's refugees. This study uses original data to explore within-country spatial…
We use a large-scale randomized experiment to study the impact of augmenting staffing in the world’s largest public early-childhood program…
We study the evolution of belief systems that suppress productive effort, including beliefs about envy, the importance of luck for success…
Are developing-world cities engines of opportunities for low-wage earners? In this study, we track a cohort of young low-income workers in…
This paper builds and analyzes a new global macro-historical database of effective tax rates on capital and labor in 154 countries. We…
Licensed workers could be shielded from unemployment during recession since occupational
licensing laws are asymmetric—making unlicensed…
There is a growing recognition of the impact of social determinants of mental health (SDoMHs) on people with, or at risk of, developing…
Despite increased advocacy and investments in mental health systems globally, there has been limited progress in reducing mental disorder…