Department of Economics Working Papers

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2025-104: Why Do Supply Disruptions Lead to Inflation?

Gregory Phelan, Thomas Kohler, Jean-Paul L'Huillier and Maximilian Weiss

2025-102: Collateralizability and Asset Prices: Evidence from Structured Funds

Gregory Phelan, Wei Li and Yongqin Wang

2022-02: A Generalized Uzawa Growth Theorem and Capital-Augmenting Technological Change

Gregory Casey and Ryo Horii

2022-01: Understanding Climate Damages: Consumption versus Investment

Gregory Casey, Stephie Fried and Matthew Gibson

2021-13: Gendered Language

Pamela Jakiela and Owen Ozier

2021-12: Should Monetary Policy Target Financial Stability?

William Chen and Gregory Phelan

2021-11: Liquidity Provision and Financial Stability

William Chen and Gregory Phelan

2021-10: Ore Money Ore Problems: A Resource Extraction Game

Sarah Jacobson

2021-09: Women Artists

Abigail LeBlanc and Stephen Sheppard

2021-08: Image Content, Complexity, and the Market Value of Art

Stephen Sheppard

2021-07: Collateral Constraints, Tranching, and Price Bases

Feixue Gong and Gregory Phelan

2021-06: Financial Stress and Health Considerations: A Tradeoff in the Reopening Decisions of U.S. Liberal Arts Colleges During The COVID-19 Pandemic

Jonah Tobin, Oliver Hall, Jacob Lazris and David Zimmerman

2021-05: Simple Diagnostics for Two-Way Fixed Effects

Pamela Jakiela

2021-04: Recruitment, effort, and retention effects of performance contracts for civil servants: Experimental evidence from Rwandan primary schools

Clare Leaver, Owen Ozier, Pieter Serneels and Andrew Zeitlin

2021-03: Seeds of Learning: Uncertainty and Technology Adoption in an Ecosystem-Based Adaptation Game

Babatunde Abidoye, Sahan Dissanayake and Sarah Jacobson

2021-02: Historical Instruments and Contemporary Endogenous Regressors

Gregory Casey and Marc Klemp

2021-01: Technology Shocks and Predictable Minsky Cycles

Jean-Paul L’Huillier, Gregory Phelan and Hunter Wieman

2020-11: Information Asymmetries and Remittance Recipient Income: A Field Experiment in Malawi

Kate Ambler and Susan Godlonton

2020-10: Cournot Fire Sales

Thomas Eisenbach and Gregory Phelan

2020-09: Occupant Well-Being and House Values

Richard Rijnks and Stephen Sheppard

2020-08: Seeds of Learning: Uncertainty and Technology Adoption in an Ecosystem-Based Adaptation Game

Babatunde Abidoye, Sahan Dissanayake and Sarah Jacobson

2020-07: Intra-African Trade

William Olney

2020-06: Money Growing on Trees: A Classroom Game about Payments for Ecosystem Services and Tropical Deforestation

Sahan Dissanayake and Sarah Jacobson

2020-05: International Coordination of Macroprudential Policies with Capital Flows and Financial Asymmetries

William Chen and Gregory Phelan

2020-04: Discretionary Exemptions from Environmental Regulation: Flexibility for Good or for Ill

Dietrich Earnhart, Sarah Jacobson, Yusuke Kuwayama and Richard Woodward

2020-03: Collateral Constraints, Tranching, and Price Bases

Feixue Gong and Gregory Phelan

2020-02: (Im)patience by Proxy: Making Intertemporal Decisions for Others

Angela de Oliveira and Sarah Jacobson

2020-01: Should Monetary Policy Target Financial Stability?

William Chen and Gregory Phelan

2019-25: Windfalls and work requirements: Evidence from a field experiment in Malawi

Kate Ambler and Susan Godlonton

2019-24: Follow the leader? A field experiment on social influence

Kate Ambler, Susan Godlonton and Maria Recalde

2019-23: Occupant Well-Being and House Values

Richard Rijnks and Stephen Sheppard

2019-22: The Impact of the ACA Medicaid Expansion on Disability Program Applications

Lucie Schmidt, Lara Shore-Sheppard and Tara Watson

2019-21: Federalizing Benefits: The Introduction of Supplemental Security Income and the Size of the Safety Net

Andrew Goodman-Bacon and Lucie Schmidt

2019-20: Fertility Trends in the United States, 1980-2017: The Role of Unintended Births

Kasey Buckles, Melanie Guldi and Lucie Schmidt

2019-19: Lump-sum Transfers for Agriculture and Household Decision Making

Kate Ambler, Alan de Brauw and Susan Godlonton

2019-18: Debt Collateralization, Structured Finance, and the CDS Basis

Feixue Gong and Gregory Phelan

2019-17: Energy Efficiency and Directed Technical Change: Implications for Climate Change Mitigation

Gregory Casey

2019-16: Extreme Temperatures and Time Use in China

Teevrat Garg, Matthew Gibson and Fanglin Sun

2019-15: Why Do We Procrastinate? Present Bias and Optimism

Zachary Breig, Matthew Gibson and Jeffrey Shrader

2019-14: School Desegregation and Black Teacher Employment

Owen Thompson

2019-13: Fertility Decline in the Civil Rights Era

Owen Thompson

2019-12: Assessing the FSAP: Quality, Relevance, and Value Added

Gerard Caprio

2019-11: Discretionary Exemptions from Environmental Regulation: Flexibility for Good or for Ill

Dietrich Earnhart, Sarah Jacobson, Yusuke Kuwayama and Richard Woodward

2019-10: Diversity and Conflict

Cemal Eren Arbatli, Quamrul Ashraf, Oded Galor and Marc Klemp

2019-09: Money Growing on Trees: A Classroom Game about Payments for Ecosystem Services and Tropical Deforestation

Sahan Dissanayake and Sarah Jacobson

2019-08: Preference Discovery

Jason Delaney, Sarah Jacobson and Thorsten Moenig

2019-07: Debt Collateralization, Capital Structure, and Maximal Leverage

Feixue Gong and Gregory Phelan

2019-06: Macroeconomic Research, Present and Past

P.J. Glandon, Kenneth Kuttner, Sandeep Mazumder and Caleb Stroup

2019-05: Heat Stress: Ambient Temperature and Workplace Accidents in the US

Lucy Page and Stephen Sheppard

2019-04: The Impact of Climate Change on Fertility

Gregory Casey, Soheil Shayegh, Juan Moreno-Cruz, Martin Bunzl, Oded Galor and Ken Caldeira