Darrick Hamilton and Barry Melancon. Hamilton will represent the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial ...

Darrick Hamilton and Barry Melancon. At its meeting on April 28, the NBER Board of Directors elected two new members: Darrick Hamilton and Barry Melancon. Hamilton will r ...

Over sixty years ago in 1964, the launch of the War on Poverty represented one of the largest and most comprehensive attempts ...

2025, Long-Term Asset Management, Ishita Sen, "The Market for Sharing Interest Rate Risk: Quantities and Asset Prices" ...

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Stantcheva has made wide-ranging contributions in public finance, studying the effects of taxation on innovation, immigration, and investments in education. She has also developed novel survey and ...

We argue that college students’ field-of-study choices significantly influence how economies respond to labor market disruptions. To do so, we develop and estimate a framework featuring ...

We study the positive (not normative) effect of a permanent import tariff on trade deficits. We consider a two-period trade model with general preferences and technology. We first develop an ...

Firm location decisions are a key managerial choice, usually optimized over factors like proximity to customers or suppliers. These decisions may also impose externalities on the environment, and on ...

This paper examines how power lawyers shape judicial and economic outcomes by studying the “revolving door” between judges and lawyers in China’s judicial system—namely, former judges who quit the ...

Recent policy proposals seek to regulate out-of-network hospital prices. We study how such regulation affects equilibrium prices, network formation, and hospital exit. We estimate a structural model ...

Governments and firms often employ soft spending limits to restrict overspending while still allowing exceptions on a case-by-case basis. This paper studies a Medicare policy which capped per-patient ...