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2026-135: The Gendered Impacts of Perceived Skin Tone: Evidence from African American Siblings in 1870–1940

Ran Abramitzky, Jacob Conway, Roy Mill and Luke C.D. Stein

2026-134: Provider and Worker Responses to Supply-Side Audits in Social Insurance

Pablo A. Celhay, Nicolás Figueroa, Carla Guadalupi and Benjamín Oteíza

2026-133: Do AI Assistants Reinforce Investor Beliefs? Evidence from Human and AI Replies

Swaminathan Balasubramaniam, Jorge Sabat and Soumyajit Ray

2026-132: Capital-Skill Complementarity Beyond Firm Boundaries

Gert Bijnens, Anders Humlum and Stijn Vanormelingen

2026-131: Latent Human Capital: How Early Investments in Parents Buffer Against Future Schooling Shocks

Shruti Jha, John A. List, Rebecca C. Royer and Anya Samek

2026-130: Consumption, Savings, and Earnings Responses to Financial Windfalls

Rajashri Chakrabarti, Philippe d'Astous, Kory Kroft, Sheisha Kulkarni, Vyacheslav Mikhed, Matthew J. Notowidigdo, Sahil Raina and Barry Scholnick

2026-129: Aligning Platform and User Incentives in Social Media Age Restrictions

Leonardo Bursztyn, Rafael Jiménez-Durán, Aaron Leonard, Filip Milojević and Christopher Roth

2026-128: Optimal Line-Drawing for Legal Rules

Jacob Goldin and David Weisbach

2026-127: Group Beliefs

Benjamin Brooks and Songzi Du

2026-126: Participation Security and Elementary Mechanisms

Benjamin Brooks and Songzi Du

2026-125: Crime in Covid Times

Jens Ludwig

2026-124: Gender Gaps Across the Spectrum of Development: Local Talent and Firm Productivity

Nava Ashraf, Oriana Bandiera, Víctor Quintas-Martínez and Virginia Minni

2026-122: Evaluating the Spatial Consequences of a Climate Tipping Point

José-Luis Cruz, Klaus Desmet and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

2026-61: Automation, Learning, and Career Dynamics

Hassan Afrouzi, Andres Blanco, Andrés Drenik and Erik Hurst

2026-60: The Success of the Embedded State in England

Leander Heldring, Davis Kedrosky, James A. Robinson and Matthias Weigand

2026-59: Technology Adoption and Optimal Policy

Fernando E. Alvarez, Francisco J. Buera and Nicholas Trachter

2026-58: Intermediate Input Prices and the Labor Share

Juanma Castro-Vincenzi and Benny Kleinman

2026-57: Why Bans Fail: Tipping Points and Australia’s Social Media Ban

Leonardo Bursztyn, Angela Duckworth, Rafael Jiménez-Durán, Aaron Leonard, Filip Milojević, Christopher Roth and Cass R. Sunstein

2026-56: If You Build It, They May Not Come: Willingness to Participate in Managed EV Charging

Fiona Burlig, James Bushnell and David Rapson

2026-55: Consuming Values

Jacob Conway and Levi Boxell

2026-54: Nudging Parents out the Door: The Impacts of Parental Encouragement on School Choice and Test Scores

Guthrie Gray-Lobe, Michael Kremer, Joost de Laat, Oluchi Mbonu and Cole Scanlon

2026-53: Zero Energy Day: How Nationwide Blackouts Affect the Economy

Luis E. Gonzales, Koichiro Ito and Mar Reguant

2026-52: Salience and (Non-)Buyer's Remorse: Optimal Nonlinear Pricing with Cognitively Constrained Consumers

Aaron L. Bodoh-Creed, Brent R. Hickman, John List, Ian Muir and Gregory K. Sun

2026-51: The Hidden Cost of Stock Market Concentration: When Funds Hit Regulatory Limits

Lubos Pastor, Taisiya Sikorskaya and Jinrui Wang

2026-50: The Effects of Intervening the Supply Side of Fraudulent Sick Leaves Market in Chile

Pablo Celhay, Nicolás Figueroa, Carla Guadalupi and Benjamín Oteíza

2026-49: Financial Sanctions and the Global Payments Network

Gregor Matvos and Brent Neiman

2026-48: Physician Competition: Entry and Substitution

Joshua Gottlieb and Sean Nicholson

2026-47: Firm Data on AI

Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Philip Bunn, Steven J. Davis, Kevin Foster, Aaron Jalca, Brent Meyer, Paul Mizen, Michael A. Navarrete, Pawel Smietanka, Gregory Thwaites, Ben Zhe Wang and Ivan Yotzov

2026-46: Does Scarcity Tax Parents’ Minds?

Ariel Kalil and Mauricio Koechlin

2026-45: Substitution and Income Effects of Labor Income Taxation

Michael Graber, Morten HÃ¥varstein, Magne Mogstad, Gaute Torsvik and Ola Vestad

2026-44: International Comparison of Physician Incomes

Aidan Buehler, Joshua Gottlieb, Jeffrey Hicks, Lisa Laun, MÃ¥rten Palme, Maria Polyakova, Victoria Udalova and Maria Ventura

2026-43: Predictably Unpredictable Inspections

Ashvin Gandhi, Andrew Olenski and Maggie Shi

2026-42: Stimulating Auto Markets

David Berger, Geoffrey Gee, Nick Turner and Eric Zwick

2026-41: Household Preferences for Women's Employment: A Field Experiment in Bangladesh

Yueh-ya Hsu, Reshmaan N. Hussam, Erin M. Kelley and Gregory Lane

2026-40: Quantum Bayesian Inference: An Exploration

Jon Frost, Carlos Madeira, Yash Rastogi and Harald Uhlig

2026-39: Who Gets What in Education: Can School Matching Improve Student Achievement?

Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Parag A. Pathak and Christopher R. Walters

2026-38: School Choice and Segregation: Evidence from the Oakland Unified School District

Jesse Rothstein, Ini Umosen and Christopher R. Walters

2026-37: Attention (And Money) Is All You Need: Why Universities Are Struggling to Keep AI Talent

Ufuk Akcigit, Craig A. Chikis, Emin Dinlersoz and Nathan Goldschlag

2026-36: Work from Home and Fertility

Cevat Giray Aksoy, Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Katelyn Cranney, Steven J. Davis, Mathias Dolls and Pablo Zárate

2026-34: Multidimensional Signaling and the Rise of Cultural Politics

Daron Acemoglu, Georgy Egorov and Konstantin Sonin

2026-33: Trading Goods for Lives: NAFTA’s Mortality Impacts and Implications

Amy Finkelstein, Matthew Notowidigdo and Steven Shi

2026-32: Mass Media and Contraception Use: An Experimental Test of Modernization Theory in Burkina Faso

Rachel Glennerster, Joanna Murray and Victor Pouliquen

2026-31: Dynamic Complementarity

James Heckman, Haihan Tian, Zijian Zhang and Jin Zhou

2026-30: Income Shocks and the Intergenerational Transmission of Executive Function

Ariel Kalil and Mauricio Koechlin

2026-29: How does AI distribute the pie? Large Language Models and the Ultimatum Game

Douglas K.G. Araujo and Harald Uhlig

2026-28: Residential Segregation and Unequal Access to Local Public Services in India: Evidence from 1.5m Neighborhoods

Sam Asher, Kritarth Jha, Paul Novosad, Anjali Adukia and Brandon Tan

2026-27: Searching for Fish in Trees (緣木求魚)? Economic Development when Context Matters

Jacob Moscona, Nathan Nunn and James A. Robinson

2026-26: Inferring Prices from Quantities

David Argente, Chang-Tai Hsieh and Munseob Lee

2026-25: Class Mobility in the Era of Rising Inequality: A Synthetic Dynasty Analysis

Geoffrey Wodtke, Weiqi Wang, Kristina Butaeva and Steven N. Durlauf

2026-24: The Effect of Exposure: Evidence from Spatial Choices in Nairobi

Joshua Dean, Gabriel Kreindler and Oluchi Mbonu