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The National Bureau of Economic Research is dedicated to conducting and disseminating nonpartisan economic research.
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Joined May 2009
Low fertility is the result of shifting adult priorities, likely driven by changing norms, evolving opportunities and constraints, and broader social forces, from @kearney_melissa and @phil_wellesley
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There is substantial scope for doctor discretion in medical evaluations. Discretion has large impacts on patient outcomes, and market forces shape doctor allocation and outcomes, from Marika Cabral and @MarcusDillender
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Testing whether pensions motivate effort or selectively retain the best workers by examining public schools using pension thresholds finds no effect on teacher performance or quality, from Michael D. Bates and @acjohnston0
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A randomized evaluation of matching grants to promote exports in Tunisia finds large effects on exports, but mainly of existing products to existing destinations, from Nadia Ali, Giacomo De Giorgi, Aminur Rahman, and @EricVerhoogen
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Identifying the effect of subtitling in comparing English to math skills in European countries that do and do not use subtitles, from Frauke Baumeister, @EricHanushek, and @Woessmann
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Bank industry opponents killed US regulators' 2023 "Basel Endgame" proposal that aimed to meet international standards and raise capital requirements. These two goals are separable, from Stephen G. Cecchetti, Jeremy C. Kress, and @MoneyBanking1
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Researcher assumptions shape not just how experiments run—but what questions we ask. Outlining best practices for designing context-aware lab experiments in non-Western settings, from @sararlowes and @DrNathanNunn
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Providing the first causal evidence on how occupational wage inequality undermines the labor movement, using three complementary research designs, from @BarbaraBiasi, @zoebcullen, Julia H. Gilman, and @ninaroussille
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Analyzing 630k paintings since 1400 to show how art complements development indicators by revealing sentiments about living standards, uncertainty, and inequality, from Clément Gorin, @StephanHeblich, and Yanos Zylberberg
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In Italy, a major tax credit favored middle earners and boosted votes for incumbents, revealing a political-economy tradeoff, from @silviavannutell
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The 1942 Exclusion Act removed high-skilled farmers of Japanese ancestry near the West Coast. This significantly reduced long-run growth of agriculture in the affected counties, from Peter Zhixian Lin and @giov_peri
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A growing body of research suggests reproductive health care has intergenerational effects on the well-being of children, from @martha_j_bailey
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