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2026-19: College Major Choice, Payoffs, and Gender Gaps

Christopher Campos Campos, Pablo Muñoz, Alonso Bucarey and Dante Contreras

2026-18: Never Enough: Dynamic Status Incentives in Organizations

Leonardo Bursztyn, Ewan Rawcliffe and Hans-Joachim Voth

2026-17: A Few Bad Apples? Academic Dishonesty, Political Selection, and Institutional Performance in China

Zhuang Liu, Wenwei Peng and Shaoda Wang

2026-16: Occupation-Specific Education Requirements and Occupational Silos: Evidence from CPA Licensing Rules

Anthony Le and Parth Shah

2026-15: Rational Disagreement

Nabil Al-Najjar and Harald Uhlig

2026-14: FinTech and Customer Capital

Bianca He, Lauren Mostrom and Amir Sufi

2026-13: Business Concentration around the World: 1900-2020

Yueran Ma, Mengdi Zhang and Kaspar Zimmermann

2026-12: Technology and Economic Development

Daron Acemoglu, Ufuk Akcigit and Simon Johnson

2026-11: The Economics of Scaling Early Childhood Programs: Lessons from The Chicago School

John List

2021-21: The Analytic Theory of a Monetary Shock

Fernando Alvarez and Francesco Lippi

2021-20: Does Private Equity Investment in Healthcare Benefit Patients? Evidence from Nursing Homes

Atul Gupta, Sabrina Howell, Constantine Yannelis and Abhinav Gupta

2021-19: Spending and Job Search Impacts of Expanded Unemployment Benefits: Evidence from Administrative Micro Data

Peter Ganong, Fiona Greig, Max Liebeskind, Pascal Noel, Daniel Sullivan and Joseph Vavra

2021-18: Tax Refund Uncertainty: Evidence and Welfare Implications

Sydnee Caldwell, Scott Nelson and Daniel Waldinger

2021-17: Low Energy: Estimating Electric Vehicle Electricity Use

Fiona Burlig, James Bushnell, David Rapson and Catherine Wolfram

2021-16: The Immigrant Next Door: Exposure, Prejudice, and Altruism

Leonardo Bursztyn, Thomas Chaney, Tarek Hassan and Aakash Rao

2021-15: Selection on Welfare Gains: Experimental Evidence from Electricity Plan Choice

Stéphane Bonhomme

2021-14: Revising the Canon: How Andy Warhol Became the Most Important American Modern Artist

David Galenson

2021-13: Profiling Insurrection: Characterizing Collective Action Using Mobile Device Data

David Van Dijcke and Austin Wright

2021-12: Selection on Welfare Gains: Experimental Evidence from Electricity Plan Choice

Koichiro Ito, Takanori Ida and Makoto Tanaka

2021-11: Measuring Movement and Social Contact with Smartphone Data: A Real-time Application to COVID-19

Victor Couture, Jonathan Dingel, Allison Green, Jessie Handbury and Kevin Williams

2021-10: Rethinking How We Score Capital Gains Tax Reform

Natasha Sarin, Lawrence Summers, Owen Zidar and Eric Zwick

2021-09: Liquidity, Pledgeability, and the Nature of Lending

Douglas Diamond, Yunzhi Hu and Raghuram Rajan

2021-08: Preparing for a Pandemic: Accelerating Vaccine Availability

Amrita Ahuja, Susan Athey, Arthur Baker, Eric Budish, Juan Castillo, Rachel Glennerster, Scott Kominers, Michael Kremer, Jean Lee, Candice Prendergast, Christopher Snyder, Alex Tabborok, Brandon Tan and Witold Wiecek

2021-07: Do Financial Concerns Make Workers Less Productive?

Supreet Kaur, Sendhil Mullainathan, Suanna Oh and Frank Schilbach

2021-06: Indoor Air Quality, Information, and Socio-Economic Status: Evidence from Delhi

Michael Greenstone, Kenneth Lee and Harshil Sahai

2021-05: Outsourcing, Inequality and Aggregate Output

Adrien Bilal and Hugo Lhuillier

2021-04: Updating the United States Government's Social Cost of Carbon

Tamma Carleton and Michael Greenstone

2021-03: The Behavioral Foundations of Default Effects: Theory and Evidence from Medicare Part D

Zarek Brot-Goldberg, Timothy Layton, Boris Vabson and Adelina Yanyue Wang

2021-02: COVID-19 Is a Persistent Reallocation Shock

Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Steven Davis and Brent Meyer

2021-01: Comparing Conventional and Machine-Learning Approaches to Risk Assessment in Domestic Abuse Cases

Jeffrey Grogger, Sean Gupta, Ria Ivandic and Tom Kirchmaier

2020-189: Pandemic-Era Uncertainty on Main Street and Wall Street

Brent Meyer, Emil Mihaylov, Steven Davis, Nicholas Parker, David Altig, Jose Maria Barrero and Nicholas Bloom

2020-188: Parallel Digital Currencies and Sticky Prices

Harald Uhlig and Taojun Xie

2020-187: The Social Side of Early Human Capital Formation: Using a Field Experiment to Estimate the Causal Impact of Neighborhoods

John List, Fatemeh Momeni and Yves Zenou

2020-186: Simple and Credible Value-Added Estimation Using Centralized School Assignment

Joshua Angrist, Peter Hull, Parag Pathak and Christopher Walters

2020-185: Deaths of Despair and the Incidence of Excess Mortality in 2020

Casey Mulligan

2020-184: Do Employees Benefit from Worker Representation on Corporate Boards?

David Arnold, Will Dobbie and Peter Hull

2020-183: Do Employees Benefit from Worker Representation on Corporate Boards?

Christine Blandhol, Magne Mogstad, Peter Nilsson and Ola Vestad

2020-182: International Trade and Earnings Inequality: A New Factor Content Approach

Rodrigo Adao, Paul Carrillo, Arnaud Costinot, Dave Donaldson and Dina Pomeranz

2020-181: Business-Level Expectations and Uncertainty

Nicholas Bloom, Steven Davis, Lucia Foster, Brian Lucking, Scott Ohlmacher and Itay Saporta Eksten

2020-180: Central Bank Digital Currency: When Price and Bank Stability Collide

Linda Schilling, Jesús Fernández-Villaverde and Harald Uhlig

2020-179: The Value of Time in the United States: Estimates from Nationwide Natural Field Experiments

Ariel Goldszmidt, John List, Robert Metcalfe, Ian Muir, Kerry Smith and Jenny Wang

2020-178: Cybersecurity Risk

Chris Florakis, Christodoulos Louca, Roni Michaely and Michael Weber

2020-177: Granular Instrumental Variables

Xavier Gabaix and Ralph Koijen

2020-176: Security Transitions

Thiemo Fetzer, Pedro Souza, Oliver Vanden Eynde and Austin Wright

2020-175: Designing Advance Market Commitments for New Vaccines

Michael Kremer, Jonathan Levin and Christopher Snyder

2020-174: Why Working From Home Will Stick

Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom and Steven Davis

2020-173: On the Effects of the Availability of Means of Payments: The Case of Uber

Fernando Alvarez and David Argente

2020-172: Are Bigger Banks Better? Firm-Level Evidence from Germany

Kilian Huber

2020-171: Discrimination, Manager, and Firm Performance: Evidence from "Aryanizations" in Nazi Germany

Kilian Huber, Volker Lindenthal and Fabian Waldinger

2020-170: Special Deals from Special Investors: The Rise of State-Connected Private Owners in China

Chong-En Bai, Chang-Tai Hsieh, Zheng Song and Xin Wang