With the growth of sales of e-cigarettes and other alternative nicotine products, governments face the new challenge of crafting public health messages that provide information to consumers about ...

We study a child-focused UPG in rural Malawi that augments the standard graduation bundle with early childhood development (ECD) training, targeting mothers with young children in a population that is ...

Since the 1980s, the United States has experienced a pronounced saving glut of the rich, a large accumulation of assets among the top 1% of earners. We argue that this development partly reflects a ...

We study China’s Grand Canal: when the Mongols moved the capital from the central plain to Beijing, the canal followed, bypassing the economic core it once served. Using a grid-year panel spanning ...

This paper examines an equity-motivated anti-scrappage policy in Brazil using a border-pair design that exploits state variation in the age thresholds for vehicle ownership tax exemptions. Using ...

We examine whether expanded legal access to the contraceptive pill for minors generated health benefits for subsequent generations. We use data from the restricted-use Natality files from 1970-2020, ...

Will 21st century transportation innovations work against urban density, as the car did in the 20th century, or promote urban centralization, as the railroad did in the 19th century? Reducing the cost ...

The cognitive noise hypothesis is an increasingly popular explanation for a wide range of puzzling regularities in human behavior. Using simple, familiar tools and minimal assumptions drawn from ...

How much does pricing pollution cut aggregate emissions, and at what cost? We develop a microfounded equilibrium model of firm production and abatement that can be estimated from standard firm ...

Ex-ante, the government has incentives to delegate monetary policy to a central bank with an inflation targeting mandate. Ex-post, however, the government faces temptations to revoke the mandate to ...

Strands of the literature document four broad error sources: survey coverage, unit non-response, item non-response, and measurement error. Yet the absence of comparable error measures across sources ...

Using a 330-basis-point benchmark for the rate-equivalent wealth benefit, the safe-debt margin—the difference between this benefit and marginal cost—fell from about 250 to 143 basis points. At the CBO ...