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25-01: On the Fragility of the Nonlinear Phillips Curve View of Recent Inflation

Chenyu Hou

24-10: Convergence Across Castes

Chenyu Hou

24-09: Uncovering Subjective Models from Survey Expectations

Chenyu Hou

24-08: Present Bias in Politics and Self–Committing Treaties

Anke Kessler

24-07: Public Education and Intergenerational Housing Wealth Effects

Michael Gilraine

24-06: Public Policing and Private Security: Insights from the UK

Steeve Mongrain

24-05: A Note on Allowing State Bankruptcy

Minjie Deng

24-04: Public Financing Under Balanced Budget Rules

Minjie Deng

24-03: Entangled vs. Separable Choice

Victor Aguiar

24-02: Economic Determinants of Ethereum Transaction Fees in the Priority Fee and Proof of Stake Periods

Alexander Karaivanov

24-01: Technology, R&D, Industrial, and Science Policies: Private and Public Sector Interactions That Encourage Technological Advance

Richard Lipsey

23-14: Urbanization, Structural Transformation and Rural-Urban Disparities in China and India

Chenyu Hou

23-13: Learning and Subjective Expectation Formation: A Recurrent Neural Network Approach

Chenyu Hou

23-12: The Impact of Religious Diversity on Students’ Academic and Behavioral Outcomes

Pierre Mouganie

23-11: Interest Rates, Moneyness, and the Fisher Equation

Lucas Herrenbrueck

23-10: Heterogeneous impact of extreme temperatures on household farms: evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Fernando M. Aragon

23-09: The long-term impact of a resource-based fiscal windfall: evidence from the Peruvian canon

Fernando M. Aragon

23-08: COVID-19 and economic preferences: evidence from a panel of cab drivers

Fernando M. Aragon

23-02: Farm size and exposure to extreme heat: evidence from subsistence farms in Sub-Saharan Africa

Fernando Aragon and Juan Pablo Rud

23-01: Labeling vs Targeting: How did the Canada Child Benefit affect household bargaining and preferences?

Shirleen Manzur and Krishna Pendakur

22-08: Fisher vs Keynes: Does an Interest Rate Hike Cause Inflation to Increase or Decrease?

Marieh Azizirad

22-07: Job Displacement Costs of Phasing Out Coal

Juan-Pablo Rud, Michael Simmons, Gerhard Toews and Fernando Aragon

22-06: A Theory of Illiberal Democracy and Political Transitions

Chris Bidner and Shirleen Manzur

22-05: Are Elections Enough?

Shirleen Manzur

22-04: The Determinants of Displaced Workers’ Wages: Sorting, Matching, Selection, and the Hartz Reforms

Simon Woodcock

22-03: Private schools and student achievement

Ebrahim Azimi, Jane Friesen and Simon Woodcock

22-02: COVID-19 and economic preferences: evidence from a panel of cab drivers

Fernando Aragon, Noelia Bernal Lobato, Mariano Bosch and Oswaldo Molina

22-01: The effect of universal full-day Kindergarten on student achievement

Jane Friesen, Brian Krauth and Ricardo Meilman Cohn

21-17: Debt Maturity Heterogeneity and Investment Responses to Monetary Policy

Minjie Deng and Min Fang

21-16: Sovereign Risk and Intangible Investment

Minjie Deng and Chang Liu

21-15: Inequality, Taxation, and Sovereign Default Risk

Minjie Deng

21-14: An Institutional Perspective on the Economics of the Family

Siwan Anderson and Chris Bidner

21-13: COVID-19 Vaccination Mandates and Vaccine Uptake

Alexander Karaivanov, Dongwoo Kim, Shih En Lu and Hitoshi Shigeoka

21-12: Identifcation-Robust Nonparametric Inference in a Linear IV Model

Bertille Antoine and Pascal Lavergne

21-11: Are small farms really more productive than large farms?

Fernando Aragon, Diego Restuccia and Juan Pablo Rud

21-10: The persistent effects of COVID-19 on labor outcomes: evidence from Peru

Minoru Higa, Carlos Ospino and Fernando Aragon

21-09: Anchors of Strategic Reasoning in the Traveler's Dilemma

Hanh Tong and David Freeman

21-08: Default-Setting and Default Bias: Does the Choice Architect Matter?

David Freeman, Hanh Tong and Lanny Zrill

21-07: Asymmetric Demand Response when Prices Increase and Decrease: The Case of Child Healthcare

Toshiaki Iizuka and Hitoshi Shigeoka

21-06: Is Zero a Special Price? Evidence from Child Healthcare

Toshiaki Iizuka and Hitoshi Shigeoka

21-05: Temporal Instability of Risk Preference among the Poor: Evidence from Payday Cycles

Mike Akesaka, Peter Eibich, Chie Hanaoka and Hitoshi Shigeoka

21-04: The Funding of Important Emerging and Evolving Technologies by the Public and Private Sectors

Kenneth Carlaw and Richard Lipsey

21-03: Blockchains, Collateral and Financial Contracts

Alexander Karaivanov

21-02: Transaction Fee Economics in the Ethereum Blockchain

Alexander Karaivanov and Anil Donmez

21-01: Imperfect Public Choice

André de Palma, Gordon Myers and Yorgos Papageorgiou

20-11: INDUSTRIAL POLICIES: Common Not Rare

Richard Lipsey and Kenneth Carlaw

20-09: Face Masks, Public Policies and Slowing the Spread of COVID-19: Evidence from Canada

Alexander Karaivanov, Hitoshi Shigeoka, Shih En Lu, Cong Chen and Stephanie Pamplona

20-08: Peers as treatments*

Brian Krauth

20-07: Why a pandemic recession should boost asset prices (... according to standard economic theory)

Lucas Herrenbrueck

20-06: Partially Linear Models with Endogeneity: a conditional moment based approach

Bertille Antoine and Xiaolin Sun