This paper estimates the causal effect of fertility on mothers’ work arrangements, with a particular focus on remote work. Using harmonized individual-level data from the American Community Survey ...

We study the employment effects of California’s $20 fast-food minimum wage. Evaluating this policy poses two challenges in commonly used aggregate datasets: coverage is based on 60-establishment chain ...

We measure the convenience yield on dollar safe assets over the last 5 years to answer this question. We find that within the set of U.S. dollar assets, safe asset convenience yields are about the ...

There is substantial heterogeneity in economic, educational, and health outcomes among American Indians, shaped by factors such as geographic location (urban vs. rural), resource endowments, and ...

This paper uses the history of private money to assess the conditions under which stablecoins could function safely at scale and what their growth may imply for U.S. monetary power. Historical systems ...

We study how the U.S.-China trade war has reshaped global trade patterns, creating significant spillovers to third countries. Using recent tariff policy changes and monthly international trade flow ...

We investigate how limiting interest deductibility under the 2017 TCJA shapes corporate innovation. Using alternative identification strategies, we show that, relative to unaffected firms, affected ...

We explore the historical link between populist regimes, fiscal monetization, and inflation, and how these links affect monetary policy in the 21st century. Using data for a large set of advanced ...

Motivated by William Julius Wilson’s account of concentrated disadvantage, we examine a local poverty-trap interpretation of low entrepreneurship in Black neighborhoods. Using registration data from ...

We study how firms’ orientation toward employee well-being shapes the health of their workers. Because this orientation is not directly observable, we measure it from the language Danish firms use in ...

Losses from natural disasters can be mitigated through investments in property protection, yet adoption of low-cost risk-reducing measures remains low. In wildfire-exposed areas, managing vegetation ...

We examine how information affects the choice between Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) and Old-Age Insurance (OAI) benefits for people between 62 and full retirement age. We find that ...