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This is a paper in the ``economists ruin everything'' field. It considers whether Catch-22 situations can persist as...
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When studying policy-relevant topics, researchers’ policy preferences may shape the design, execution, analysis, and...
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The ISCHEMIA Trial randomly assigned patients with ischemic heart disease to an invasive treatment strategy centered...
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We investigate whether two characteristics of non-profit hospital boards – the number of board members and whether the...
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We hypothesize and find evidence that banks use venture investments in fintech startups as a strategic approach to...
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    Article Workplace Adoption of Generative AI
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     Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has recently emerged as a potentially transformative workplace technology. The ultimate impact of generative AI on the economy will depend on how many workers adopt the technology, how intensively they use it, and for which tasks. In The Rapid Adoption of Generative AI (NBER Working Paper 32966), researchers Alexander Bick, Adam Blandin, and David J. Deming report on a nationally representative US survey of generative AI adoption...
    Long-Term Effects of Affirmative Action Bans
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    Affirmative action policies, which give preference in college admissions to students from underrepresented minority (URM) groups, have been a subject of debate and legal scrutiny in the US. The recent Supreme Court ruling in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College barred explicit racial and ethnic preferences in college admissions as unconstitutional. Prior to this ruling, nine states had banned affirmative action in public university...

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     Lessons for Economists from the Pandemic Primary figure
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    Author(s): Cecilia E. Rouse
    It is an honor to be here today; I owe my love of economics to the Bureau as well as my many friends and colleagues. Marty [Martin] Feldstein was one of the people who made it such a special place. I enjoyed seeing him around the Bureau, learning public finance from him, and briefly serving as his research assistant. I’d sit in his office, in awe of his incredible intellect and economic insights, and be completely distracted by the hilarious cartoons he had framed...
    Understanding Early Childhood Development and Its Importance figure
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    Author(s): Orazio Attanasio
    In the process of human development, what happens in the early years — including the first thousand days after conception — is of key importance for determining life-cycle outcomes. Early outcomes, however, are not fixed at birth or determined exclusively by genetics; they are influenced by a variety of factors, including parental behaviors, the environments children live in, and policy interventions. Furthermore, human development is a multidimensional process, with...

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    Inflation’s Impact on Social Security Disability Program Beneficiaries figure
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     Social Security Disability (SSD) program beneficiaries, like other consumers, have been negatively affected by inflation over the past several years. In a survey from June of 2023, more than half (59 percent) of SSD program beneficiaries reported higher prices for the disability-related goods and services they need to purchase, and more than one-quarter reported reducing food spending to cover disability-related costs, Zachary Morris and Stephanie Rennane found in...
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    Despite the US’s well-established banking system, a significant share of the population has limited access to basic financial services that facilitate saving, investing, and preparing for retirement. In Financial Inclusion, Inequality, and Retirement Trends among Older Workers (NBER RDRC Paper NB22-16), Isaac Marcelin and Wei Sun study how financial inclusion affects household wellbeing.The researchers use data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the Health and...

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    How Health Disparities Develop over the Lifecycle
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    In the Netherlands, there are striking socioeconomic differences in mortality among older adults, with a 4.4 percentage point (67 percent) higher five-year mortality rate for 70-year-old individuals with below-median income than for those with above-median income. To better understand the role of chronic disease in these health disparities, Kaveh Danesh, Jonathan T. Kolstad, William D. Parker, and Johannes Spinnewijn develop an index of chronic disease burden in The Chronic...
    Health Consequences of Wildfire Smoke figure
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    Tiny, inhalable particles known as fine particulate matter (PM2.5) are a primary component of wildfire smoke and are detrimental to human health. Since smoke can drift hundreds of miles from its source, exposure to these pollutants is widespread: wildfire smoke accounts for about 18 percent of the ambient PM2.5 concentrations affecting the US population. In The Nonlinear Effects of Air Pollution on Health: Evidence from Wildfire Smoke (NBER Working Paper 32924), Nolan H...

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    “Third Places” Boost Local Economic Activity figure
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     Sociologists have argued that “third places” like cafés, which provide opportunities for individuals to socialize and exchange ideas outside of home and work, improve neighborhood life. But what about the relationship between such places and economic activity? In Third Places and Neighborhood Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Starbucks Cafés (NBER Working Paper 32604), researchers Jinkyong Choi, Jorge Guzman, and Mario L. Small use data on US business...
    Stock Market Wealth and Entrepreneurship figure
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     In Stock Market Wealth and Entrepreneurship (NBER Working Paper 32643), Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Plamen T. Nenov, Vitor Santos, and Alp Simsek evaluate the relationship between the performance of a household’s stock market portfolio and the likelihood that someone in that household launches an entrepreneurial venture. They analyze administrative data from Norway’s shareholder register and compute the holdings of every Norwegian household in all...
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