Using a representative sample of more than 7,000 Ukrainians, we study how information treatments affect corruption perceptions and prosocial behavior. We document a large gap between perceived and ...

Interpreting real-time labor market conditions is challenging because commonly used indicators are noisy, revised over time, and often send conflicting signals. In practice, policymakers and market ...

It may seem like a distant memory now, but as of the mid-2000s, U.S. natural gas production had been flat for a decade, and the U.S. was importing liquefied natural gas (LNG), with plans to import ...

Much of development economics, both micro and macro, posits theories and explores the empirics of poverty traps. A common theory centers around asset-threshold poverty traps in which marginal returns ...

Hydropower is a renewable and flexible energy source that provides essential storage capacity and enhances grid stability. Among storage technologies, pumped hydro energy storage (PHES) remains the ...

In this article, we exploit the recent, rapid diffusion of the use of GLP-1 drugs among individuals with diabetes to measure the effect of the use of these drugs on mental health, self-rated health, ...

How should policymakers evaluate policy impacts when firms design products for global markets? Standard economic analyses typically focus on domestic outcomes, implicitly assuming that policies affect ...

Monitoring systems for disaster prevention are costly, and measuring benefits is difficult when monitoring effort is endogenous. We provide the first causal estimate of one such system's impact using ...

Using a panel of confidential corporate tax returns, we provide the first direct estimates of the realized present value of corporate tax benefits from R&D credits and deductions in the United States.

When automation breaks a job apart, firms decide how to recombine the surviving activities; whether they rebundle them into one broad role or split them into specialist roles changes which surviving ...

We extend the literature on the importance of trust for financial behaviors by examining trust, financial literacy, and financial behavior related to retirement security. Using the Health and ...

Mergers are commonly evaluated by weighing their expected market power effects against any efficiency gains they create. The larger the market power effect of a proposed merger, the larger must be any ...