This volume explores the production economic statistics that accurately depict the complex racial and ethnic diversity of the US population in the twenty-first century. The chapters examine the ...

We document and characterize a new history of U.S. federal-level industrial policies by scanning all 12,167 Congressional ...

We provide the first global, long-run evidence on how war reshapes democratic institutions. Using data on all conflicts since ...

We propose rational disagreement as a formal framework for analyzing seemingly irrational behavior that can persist despite ...

Gender and racial/ethnic gaps in labor market earnings remain large, even among college-goers. Cross-gender and race/ethnic differences in choice of and returns to college major are potentially ...

Do generative AI models, particularly large language models (LLMs), exhibit systematic behavioral biases in economic and financial decisions? If so, how can these biases be mitigated? Drawing on the ...

We demonstrate nearly steady trends from 1973-2023 in the U.S. in the timing of when people work for pay, away from evening and night hours toward “usual” daytime hours. The trend is related to ...

This paper investigates whether economic hardship undermines preferences for honesty. We use controlled, high-stake measures ...

This paper examines the sharp decline in fertility across Latin America using both period and cohort measures. Combining Vital Statistics, Census microdata, and UN population data, we decompose ...

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We estimate heterogeneous responses to top-bracket tax reforms using a triple-difference design that exploits variation in tax rate changes and the thresholds at which they apply. This strategy ...

This paper explores the effects of one nation's taxation of consumption on the welfare of future generations of other countries. To do this, it presents an otherwise standard one-good, two-country ...