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- Why has economic growth slowed when innovation appears to be accelerating? [pdf] https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w24554/w24554.pdf 2 comments
- Why Is All Covid-19 News Bad News? https://www.nber.org/papers/w28110 68 comments
- Civil Liberties in Times of Crisis [pdf] https://www.nber.org/papers/w27972.pdf 155 comments
- 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 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
- 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