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

Aaron L. Bodoh-Creed, Brent R. Hickman, John A. 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 A. 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 D. 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 L. Vestad

2026-44: International Comparison of Physician Incomes

Aidan Buehler, Joshua D. 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: The Macroeconomics of Automation

Gadi Barlevy, Erik Hurst and Oleg Itskhoki

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 Zarate

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

2026-23: The Macroeconomic Effects of Neighborhood Policies: a Dynamic Analysis

Alessandra Fogli, Veronica Guerrieri, Mark Ponder and Marta Prato

2026-22: Managers and the Cultural Transmission of Gender Norms

Virginia Minni, Kieu-Trang Nguyen, Heather Sarsons and Carla Srebot

2026-21: Diversionary Escalation: Theory and Evidence from Eastern Ukraine

Natalie Ayers, Christopher Blair, Joseph Ruggiero, Austin Wright and Konstantin Sonin

2026-20: Interpreting Performance: Evidence on Signal Weighting in Human Capital Investment

Derek Rury and Ariel Kalil

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