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2023: Political ideology and innovation

Gaia Dossi and Marta Morando

2023: Autonomous schools, achievement and segregation

Jan Bietenbeck, Natalie Irmert, Linn Mattisson and Felix Weinhardt

2023: The erosion of homeownership and minority wealth

Stephen B. Billings and Adam Soliman

2023: Income inequality in the 21st century Poland

Pawel Bukowski, Pawel Chrostek, Filip Novokmet and Marek Skawinski

2023: Neoclassical growth in an interdependent world

Benny Kleinman, Ernest Liu, Stephen Redding and Motohiro Yogo

2023: Rethinking revealed comparative advantage with micro and macro data

Hanwei Huang and Gianmarco Ottaviano

2023: Urban-biased structural change

Natalie Chen, Dennis Novy, Carlo Perroni and Horng Chern Wong

2023: Tickets to the global market: First US patent awards and Chinese firm exports

Robin Kaiji Gong, Yao Li, Kalina Manova and Stephen Teng Sun

2023: Proximity of firms to scientific production

Antonin Bergeaud and Arthur Guillouzouic

2023: Exporting ideas: Knowledge flows from expanding trade in goods

Philippe Aghion, Antonin Bergeaud, Timothee Gigout, Matthieu Lequien and Marc Malitz

2023: The skyscraper revolution: Global economic development and land savings

Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt, Nathaniel Baum-Snow and Remi Jedwab

2023: Trade, innovation and optimal patent protection

David Hemous, Simon Lepot, Thomas Sampson and Julian Scharer

2023: Adapting or compounding? The effects of recurring labour shocks on stated and revealed preferences for redistribution

Maria Cotofan and Konstantinos Matakos

2023: Understanding multi-layered sanctions: A firm-level analysis

Javad Shamsi

2023: Regional productivity differences in the UK and France: From the micro to the macro

Bridget Kauma and Giordano Mion

2023: Individual welfare analysis: A tale of consumption, time use and preference heterogeneity

Tim Obermeier

2023: The distributional effects of trade: Theory and evidence from the United States

Kirill Borusyak and Xavier Jaravel

2023: Has financial fair play changed European football?

Ariela Caglio, Sébastien Laffitte, Donato Masciandaro and Gianmarco Ottaviano

2023: Induced innovation, inventors and the energy transition

Eugenie Dugoua and Todd Gerarden

2023: Do wind turbines have adverse health impacts

Christian Krekel, Johannes Rode and Alexander Roth

2023: Industrial policy and the great divergence

Reka Juhasz and Claudia Steinwender

2023: Making the invisible hand visible: Managers and the allocation of workers to jobs

Virginia Minni

2023: Induced innovation and international environmental agreements: Evidence from the ozone regime

Eugenie Dugoua

2023: Free to improve? The impact of free school attendance in England

Marco Bertoni, Gabriel Heller-Sahlgren and Olmo Silva

2023: Do larger firms exert more market power? Markups and markdowns along the size distribution

Matthias Mertens and Bernardo Mottironi

2023: Gender gaps from labor market shocks

Ria Ivandic and Anne Sophie Lassen

2023: Vacancy duration and wages

Ihsaan Bassier, Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo

2023: Are friends electric? Valuing the social costs of power lines using house prices

Stephen Gibbons and Cheng Tang

2023: Spatial wage inequality in North America and Western Europe: changes between and within local labour markets 1975-2019

Luis Bauluz, Sebastien Breau, Pawel Bukowski, Mark Fransham, Annie Seong Lee, Neil Lee, Margarita Lopez Forero, Clement Malgouyres, Filip Novokmet, Moritz Schularick and Gregory Verdugo

2023: Scars of war: the legacy of WW1 deaths on civic capital and combat motivation

Felipe Carozzi, Edward Pinchbeck and Luca Repetto

2023: Is having an expert "friend" enough? An analysis of consumer switching behavior in mobile telephony

Christos Genakos, Costas Roumanias and Tommaso Valletti

2023: Are the upwardly mobile more left-wing?

Andrew Clark and Maria Cotofan

2023: Public disclosure and tax compliance: evidence from Uganda

Priya Manwaring and Tanner Regan

2023: Does Chinese research hinge on US co-authors? Evidence from the China initiative

Philippe Aghion, Céline Antonin, Luc Paluskiewicz, David Strömberg, Raphael Wargon and Karolina Westin

2023: Remote work across jobs, companies and space

Nicholas Bloom, Steven Davis, Stephen Hansen, Peter Lambert, Raffaella Sadun and Bledi Taska

2023: Access to guns in the heat of the moment: more restrictive gun laws mitigate the effect of temperature on violence

Jonathan Colmer and Jennifer L. Doleac

2023: Knowledge spillovers from clean innovation. A tradeoff between growth and climate?

Ralf Martin and Dennis Verhoeven

2023: Back to Edgeworth? Estimating the value of time using hedonic experiences

Christian Krekel and George MacKerron

2023: Dissecting the sinews of power: international trade and the rise of Britain's fiscal-military state, 1689-1823

Ernesto Dal Bo, Karolina Hutkova, Lukas Leucht and Noam Yuchtman

2023: The measure of monopsony: the labour supply elasticity to the firm and its constituents

Nikhil Datta

2023: The impact of Covid-19 on productivity

Nicholas Bloom, Philip Bunn, Paul Mizen, Pawel Smietanka and Gregory Thwaites

2023: The dynamics of the 'Great Gatsby Curve' and a look at the curve during the Great Gatsby era

Diego Battiston, Stephan Maurer, Andrei Potlogea and Sevi Rodríguez Mora

2023: Dealing with adversity: religiosity or science? Evidence from the great influenza pandemic

Enrico Berkes, Davide M. Coluccia, Gaia Dossi and Mara P. Squicciarini

2023: The shift to remote work lessens wage-growth pressure

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

2023: How hybrid working from home works out

Nicholas Bloom, Ruobing Han and James Liang

2023: Peer pressure and manager pressure in organisations

Diego Battiston, Jordi Blanes i Vidal, Tom Kirchmaier and Katalin Szemeredi

2023: VAT pass-through and competition: evidence from the Greek Islands

Lydia Dimitrakopoulou, Christos Genakos, Themistoklis Kampouris and Stella Papadokonstantaki

2023: Firming up price inflation

Lena Anayi, Nicholas Bloom, Philip Bunn, Paul Mizen, Gregory Thwaites and Ivan Yotzov

2023: Evaluating merger effects

Christos Genakos, Andreas Lamprinidis and James Walker

2023: Working from home around the world

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

2023: Imperfect signals

Georg Graetz

2023: Long social distancing

Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom and Steven Davis

2023: FDI and superstar spillovers: evidence from firm-to-firm transactions

Mary Amiti, Cédric Duprez, Jozef Konings and John van Reenen

2023: Local and national concentration trends in jobs and sales: the role of structural transformation

David Autor, Christina Patterson and John van Reenen

2023: The causal impact of maternal educational curricula on infant health at birth

Cristina Borra, Pilar Cuevas-Ruiz and Almudena Sevilla

2023: The signaling value of legal form in debt financing

Felix Bracht, Jeroen Mahieu and Steven Vanhaverbeke

2023: Are trade wars class wars? The importance of trade-induced horizontal inequality

Kirill Borusyak and Xavier Jaravel

2023: Non-compete agreements in a rigid labour market: the case of Italy

Tito Boeri, Andrea Garnero and Lorenzo G. Luisetto

2023: Murphy's Law or luck of the Irish? Disparate treatment of the Irish in 19th century courts

Anna Bindler, Randi Hjalmarsson, Stephen Machin and Melissa Rubio

2023: Modern manufacturing capital, labor demand and product market dynamics: evidence from France

Philippe Aghion, Céline Antonin, Simon Bunel and Xavier Jaravel

2023: Responsible sourcing? Theory and evidence from Costa Rica

Alonso Alfaro-Ureña, Benjamin Faber, Cecile Gaubert, Isabela Manelici and Jose Vasquez

2023: Online tutoring works: experimental evidence from a program with vulnerable children

Lucas Gortazar, Claudia Hupkau and Antonio Roldan

2023: Pay-as-they-get-in: attitudes towards migrants and pension systems

Tito Boeri, Matteo Gamalerio, Massimo Morelli and Margherita Negri

2023: Productive robots and industrial employment: the role of national innovation systems

Chrystalla Kapetaniou and Christopher Pissarides

2023: Strapped for cash: the role of financial constraints for innovating firms

Esther Ann Bøler, Andreas Moxnes and Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe

2023: Who stands on the shoulders of Chinese (scientific) giants? Evidence from chemistry

Pierre Azoulay, Shumin Qiu and Claudia Steinwender

2023: Environmental citizen complaints

Jonathan Colmer, Mary Evans and Jay Shimshack

2023: Robot adoption, worker-firm sorting and wage inequality: evidence from administrative panel data

Ester Faia, Gianmarco Ottaviano and Saverio Spinella

2023: Import competition, trade credit and financial frictions in general equilibrium

Federico Esposito and Fadi Hassan

2023: Multinationals, robots and the labor share

Fabrizio Leone

2023: The indirect effect of the Russian-Ukrainian war through international linkages: early evidence from the stock market

Marcus Biermann and Elsa Leromain

2023: The economics of cities: from theory to data

Stephen Redding

2023: Criminal charges, risk assessment and violent recidivism in cases of domestic abuse

Dan Black, Jeffrey Grogger, Tom Kirchmaier and Koen Sanders

2023: Do role models matter in large classes? New evidence on gender match effects in higher education

Stephan Maurer, Guido Schwerdt and Simon Wiederhold

2022: Collective bargaining and spillovers in local labor markets

Ihsaan Bassier

2022: (In)convenient stores? What do policies pushing stores to town centres actually do?

Paul Cheshire, Christian Hilber, Piero Montebruno and Rosa Sanchis-Guarner

2022: The geography of structural transformation: Effects on inequality and mobility

Kohei Takeda

2022: The spillover effect of services offshoring on local labour markets

Martina Magli

2022: Gender stereotypes in the family

Cheti Nicoletti, Almudena Sevilla and Valentina Tonei

2022: New dawn fades: Trade, labour and the Brexit exchange rate depreciation

Rui Costa, Swati Dhingra and Stephen Machin

2022: Defying distance? The provision of services in the digital age

Amanda Dahlstrand

2022: Non-tariff barriers and consumer prices: evidence from Brexit

Jan David Bakker, Nikhil Datta, Richard Davies and Josh De Lyon

2022: Families, labor markets and policy

Stefania Albanesi, Claudia Olivetti and Barbara Petrongolo

2022: Sanctions and misallocation. How sanctioned firms won and Russia lost

Dzhamilya Nigmatulina

2022: Who's got the power? Wage determination and its resilience in the Great Recession

Hugo Reis and Hugo de Almeida Vilares

2022: Slavery and the British Industrial Revolution

Stephan Heblich, Stephen Redding and Hans-Joachim Voth

2022: The wage elasticity of recruitment

Boris Hirsch, Elke Jahn, Alan Manning and Michael Oberfichtner

2022: From public labs to private firms: magnitude and channels of R&D spillovers

Antonin Bergeaud, Arthur Guillouzouic, Emeric Henry and Clement Malgouyres

2022: Patents that match your standards: firm-level evidence on competition and innovation

Antonin Bergeaud, Julia Schmidt and Riccardo Zago

2022: Background matters, but not whether parents are immigrants: outcomes of children born in Denmark

Mathias Fjaellegaard Jensen and Alan Manning

2022: Sparse production networks

Andrew Bernard and Yuan Zi

2022: Can grit be taught? Lessons from a nationwide field experiment with middle-school students

Omar Arias, Pedro Carneiro, Angela Duckworth, Lauren Eskreis-Winkler, Christian Krekel, Ana Maria Munoz Boudet, Violeta Petroska-Beska and Indhira Santos

2022: Mobile internet and the rise of political tribalism in Europe

Marco Manacorda, Guido Tabellini and Andrea Tesei

2022: The rise of China's technological power: the perspective from frontier technologies

Antonin Bergeaud and Cyril Verluise

2022: Labor market insurance policies in the XXI century

Tito Boeri and Pierre Cahuc

2022: Charity in the time of austerity: in search of the 'Big Society'

Stephen Gibbons and Christian Hilber

2022: Cultural homophily and collaboration in superstar teams

Gábor Békés and Gianmarco Ottaviano

2022: Firms and inequality when unemployment is high

Ihsaan Bassier

2022: Managerial input and firm performance. Evidence from a policy experiment

Francesco Manaresi, Alessandro Palma, Luca Salvatici and Vincenzo Scrutinio

2022: The well-being cost of inflation inequalities

Alberto Prati

2022: Company wage policy in a low-wage labor market

Giulia Giupponi and Stephen Machin

2022: The impact of public transportation and commuting on urban labour markets: evidence from the new survey of London life and labour, 1929-32

Andrew Seltzer and Jonathan Wadsworth

2022: The costs and benefits of rules of origin in modern free trade agreements

Emanuel Ornelas and John L. Turner

2022: Globalization and market power

Giammario Impullitti and Syed Kazmi

2022: The economic impacts of the UK's eat out to help out scheme

Nicolas Gonzalez-Pampillon, Gonzalo Nunez-Chaim and Henry Overman

2022: Acquisitions, management and efficiency in Rwanda's coffee industry

Rocco Macchiavello and Ameet Morjaria

2022: Human wellbeing and machine learning

Ekaterina Oparina, Caspar Kaiser, Niccolo Gentile, Alexandre Tkatchenko, Andrew Clark, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve and Conchita D'Ambrosio

2022: Market size, markups and international price dispersion in the cement industry

Fabrizio Leone, Rocco Macchiavello and Tristan Reed

2022: Social push and the direction of innovation

Elias Einio, Josh Feng and Xavier Jaravel

2022: Endogenous cross-region human mobility and pandemics

Xiao Chen, Hanwei Huang, Jiandong Ju, Ruoyan Sun and Jialiang Zhang

2022: Nonparametric measurement of long-run growth in consumer welfare

Xavier Jaravel and Danial Lashkari

2022: Political adverse selection

Leonardo Bursztyn, Jonathan Kolstad, Aakaash Rao, Pietro Tebaldi and Noam Yuchtman

2022: Firm-level technological change and skill demand

Attila Lindner, Balazs Murakozy, Balazs Reizer and Ragnhild Schreiner

2022: The research university, invention and industry: evidence from German history

Jeremiah Dittmar and Ralph R. Meisenzahl

2022: Accidents will happen: (de)regulation of health and safety legislation, workplace accidents and self employment

Donna Brown and Jonathan Wadsworth

2022: Foreign ownership and robot adoption

Fabrizio Leone

2022: What makes a satisfying life? Prediction and interpretation with machine-learning algorithms

Andrew Clark, Conchita D'Ambrosio, Niccolo Gentile and Alexandre Tkatchenko

2022: Structural change within versus across firms: evidence from the United States

Xiang Ding, Teresa C. Fort, Stephen Redding and Peter K. Schott

2022: Social policy gone bad educationally: unintended peer effects from transferred students

Christos Genakos and Eleni Kyrkopoulou

2022: A new dataset to study a century of innovation in Europe and in the US

Antonin Bergeaud and Cyril Verluise

2022: Education inequality

Jo Blanden, Matthias Doepke and Jan Stuhler

2022: Ask a local: improving the public pricing of land titles in urban Tanzania

Martina Manara and Tanner Regan

2022: UK trade in the wake of Brexit

Rebecca Freeman, Kalina Manova, Thomas Prayer and Thomas Sampson

2022: Pay, productivity and management

Nicholas Bloom, Scott Ohlmacher, Cristina J. Tello-Trillo and Melanie Wallskog

2022: The anatomy of a hospital system merger: the patient did not respond well to treatment

Martin Gaynor, Adam Sacarny, Raffaella Sadun, Chad Syverson and Shruthi Venkatesh

2022: How does working from home during Covid-19 affect what managers do? Evidence from time-use studies

Andrew L. Kun, Raffaella Sadun, Orit Shaer and Thomaz Teodorovicz

2022: Managing export complexity: the role of service outsourcing

Giuseppe Berlingieri and Frank Pisch

2022: The world uncertainty index

Hites Ahir, Nicholas Bloom and Davide Furceri

2022: Multitasking while driving: a time use study of commuting knowledge workers to access current and future uses

Andrew L. Kun, Raffaella Sadun, Orit Shaer and Thomaz Teodorovicz

2022: The impact of mental health support for the chronically ill on hospital utilisation: evidence from the UK

Jonathan Gruber, Grace Lordan, Stephen Pilling, Carol Propper and Rob Saunders

2022: Tuition fees and educational attainment

Jan Bietenbeck, Andreas Leibing, Jan Marcus and Felix Weinhardt

2022: Firms and Inequality

Jan De Loecker, Tim Obermeier and John van Reenen

2022: Managerial and financial barriers during the green transition

Ralph De Haas, Ralf Martin, Mirabelle Muûls and Helena Schweiger

2022: Is online retail killing coffee shops? Estimating the winners and losers of online retail using customer transaction microdata

Lindsay E. Relihan

2022: A few Euro more: benefit generosity and the optimal path of unemployment benefits

Anna D'Ambrosio and Vincenzo Scrutinio

2022: Knowledge spillovers from clean and emerging technologies in the UK

Ralf Martin and Dennis Verhoeven

2022: Epidemics and rapacity of multinational companies

Tommaso Sonno and Davide Zufacchi

2022: A policy toolkit to increase research and innovation in the European Union

Andreas Teichgraeber and John van Reenen

2022: Working from home and corporate real estate

Antonin Bergeaud, Jean Benoit Eymeoud, Thomas Garcia and Dorian Henricot

2022: The making of civic virtues: a school-based experiment in three countries

Simon Briole, Marc Gurgand, Eric Maurin, Sandra McNally, Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela and Daniel Santín

2022: House price expectations

Niklas Gohl, Peter Haan, Claus Michelsen and Felix Weinhardt

2022: Trade persistence and trader identity - evidence from the demise of the Hanseatic League

Max Marczinek, Stephan Maurer and Ferdinand Rauch

2022: Omnia Juncta in Uno*: foreign powers and trademark protection in Shanghai's concession era

Laura Alfaro, Cathy Bao, Maggie X. Chen, Junjie Hong and Claudia Steinwender

2022: Technology transfer in global value chains

Thomas Sampson

2022: Management and misallocation in Mexico

Nicholas Bloom, Leonardo Iacovone, Mariana Pereira-López and John van Reenen

2022: Expecting Brexit

Swati Dhingra and Thomas Sampson

2022: Optimal minimum wages

Gabriel Ahlfeldt, Duncan Roth and Tobias Seidel

2022: Local retail prices, product varieties and neighborhood change

Fernando Borraz, Felipe Carozzi, Nicolás González-Pampillón and Leandro Zipitria

2022: Do well managed firms make better forecasts?

Nicholas Bloom, Takafumi Kawakubo, Charlotte Meng, Paul Mizen, Rebecca Riley, Tatsuro Senga and John van Reenen