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- Antitrust Enforcement Increases Economic Activity https://www.nber.org/papers/w31597 4 comments economics
- The production and consumption of social media https://www.nber.org/papers/w28666 3 comments economics
- NBER: Popular Personal Financial Advice versus the Professors https://www.nber.org/papers/w30395 8 comments economics
- El Salvador’s Experiment with Bitcoin as Legal Tender https://www.nber.org/digest-202207/el-salvadors-experiment-bitcoin-legal-tender 22 comments cryptocurrency
- Wealth of Two Nations: The U.S. Racial Wealth Gap, 1860-2020 https://www.nber.org/papers/w30101 208 comments economics
- Right-to-Work Laws, Unionization, and Wage Setting https://www.nber.org/papers/w30098 12 comments economics
- A Final Report Card on the States’ Response to COVID-19 - Locked-down economies did not have better health - Florida, South Dakota, New Hampshire scored A - California, New York scored F https://www.nber.org/papers/w29928 4 comments goldandblack
- The $800 Billion Paycheck Protection Program: Where Did the Money Go and Why Did it Go There? https://www.nber.org/papers/w29669 4 comments economics
- Growing Evidence Against Occupational Licensing https://www.nber.org/papers/w29318 8 comments goldandblack
- Tax evasion at different income levels: "7% in the bottom 50% to more than 20% in the top 1%" https://www.nber.org/papers/w28542 121 comments economy
- Texas's reopening did not affect signicantly affect people's movement, COVID-19 infection rates, or short-run employment. https://www.nber.org/papers/w28804 14 comments science
- New study finds eldercare homes acquired by private equity companies cut staff, raise prices, and are 50% more likely to sedate patients instead of applying behavioral therapy. After acquisition, mortality rates increase 10% and patients experience lower mobility and greater pain. https://www.nber.org/digest-202104/how-patients-fare-when-private-equity-funds-acquire-nursing-homes 18 comments science
- Myth or Measurement: What Does the New Minimum Wage Research Say about Minimum Wages and Job Loss in the United States https://www.nber.org/papers/w28388 32 comments science
- How Likely Is It that Courts Will Select the US President? The Probability of Narrow, Reversible Election Results in the Electoral College versus a National Popular Vote https://www.nber.org/papers/w27993#fromrss 14 comments politics
- National Bureau of Economics finds “no evidence that urban protests reignited Covid-19 case growth during the more than three weeks following protest onset.” https://www.nber.org/papers/w27408.pdf 3 comments science
- National Bureau of Economic Research: More than 40% of white Harvard admits are “ALDC”: athletes, legacy, Dean’s interest (donors' kids), or children of faculty. https://www.nber.org/papers/w26316 14 comments politics
- National Bureau of Economic Research: More than 40% of white Harvard admits are “ALDC”: athletes, legacy, Dean’s interest (donors' kids), or children of faculty. https://www.nber.org/papers/w26316 36 comments science
- The United States could have prevented about 16,000 deaths if all states had expanded Medicaid, new study finds https://www.nber.org/papers/w26081 184 comments science
- To no-ones surprise, Trump’s tariff costs are passed completely into the importers and consumers, NBER finds. https://www.nber.org/papers/w25672 6 comments politics
- Economics of Concentrated Corporate Ownership: Fun little read for the weekend https://www.nber.org/chapters/c9014.pdf 3 comments wallstreetbets
- The European Origins of Economic Development: In this paper we examine the European share of the population during colonization and its association with the level of economic development today. We find: a strong and uniformly positive relationship between colonial European settlement and development https://www.nber.org/papers/w18162 22 comments europe
- NBER paper: "Until the 1990's, US markets were more competitive than European markets. Today, European markets have lower concentration, lower excess profits, and lower regulatory barriers to entry." Why? Because European institutions are more independent from political interference. http://www.nber.org/papers/w24700 23 comments europe
- Kaldor and Piketty's Facts: The Rise of Monopoly Power in the United States http://www.nber.org/papers/w24287 2 comments politics
- Study: The Effect of the H-1B Quota on Employment and Selection of Foreign-Born Labor http://www.nber.org/papers/w23902?sy=902 4 comments politics
- Scientists find that when High-Occupancy Vehicle laws in Jakarta were removed, delays rose by as much as 69% http://www.nber.org/papers/w23295 20 comments science
- "We find that unexpected [football] losses increase sentence lengths assigned by judges during the week following the game...The effects of these emotional shocks are asymmetrically borne by black defendants." http://www.nber.org/papers/w22611 17 comments law
- Requiring US restaurants to post calorie counts on menus is associated with reduced BMI among overweight and obese people http://www.nber.org/papers/w21992.pdf 15 comments science
- Air Pollution and Criminal Activity: Evidence from Chicago Microdata http://www.nber.org/papers/w21787 4 comments science
- Greek Budget Realities: No Easy Options http://www.nber.org/papers/w21688#fromrss 3 comments europe
- Why Are Indian Children So Short? http://www.nber.org/papers/w21036 3 comments india
- Will a increasing use of index funds eventually cause or perhaps prevent a future market crash? http://www.nber.org/papers/w16376.pdf 19 comments investing
- The U.S. economy has grown faster—and scored higher on many other macroeconomic metrics—when the President of the United States is a Democrat rather than a Republican. For many measures, the performance gap is both large and statistically significant. http://www.nber.org/papers/w20324 273 comments politics
- "Our findings suggest that non-tenure track faculty... induce students to take more classes in a given subject [and] lead the students to do better in subsequent coursework than do their tenure track/tenured colleagues." http://www.nber.org/papers/w19406.pdf?new_window=1 3 comments science
- A Major in Science? - "The substantial overoptimism about completing a degree in science can be attributed largely to students beginning school with misperceptions about their ability to perform well academically in science." http://www.nber.org/papers/w19165 4 comments science
- Smokescreen: How Managers Behave When They Have Something To Hide http://www.nber.org/papers/w18886 5 comments science
- The Demand for Cigarettes as Derived from the Demand for Weight Control: "46% of girls and 30% of boys are smoking in part to control their weight … the demand for cigarettes is less price elastic among those who smoke for weight control.Thus, taxes on cigarettes will result in less behavior change" http://www.nber.org/papers/w18805 29 comments science
- The European Origins of Economic Development: "47 percent of average global development levels today are attributable to Europeans. One of our most surprising findings is the positive effect of even a small minority European population during the colonial period on per capita income today" http://www.nber.org/papers/w18162 9 comments science
- Can Intelligence Agencies Read Overwritten Data? http://www.nber.org/sys-admin/overwritten-data-guttman.html 2 comments reddit.com
- Acting White: Black and Hispanic students who earn high grades face social costs in terms of their popularity. http://www.nber.org/digest/jan06/w11334.html 3 comments reddit.com