This paper examines how networks formed through college athletics influence the early-career trajectories of Ivy League graduates. Tracking professional histories of 120,306 Ivy League graduates, we ...

Tax avoidance through personal holding companies has long been viewed as a key challenge for progressive income taxation. We exploit twenty years of administrative micro-data linking firms to owners ...

We study how temperature fluctuations affect U.S. state-level economic conditions using high frequency, weekly data from 1987 to 2024. The impulse response to a temperature shock from a panel local ...

We investigate whether, by providing better and more timely information, the first mandatory online reporting and auditing program for wastewater discharge releases in the U.S. improved facility ...

We document arguably unintended returns of biodiversity conservation to science discovery, exploiting the 2002 fishing ban in China—an ecosystem restoration policy without explicit science-related ...

This paper examines reforms in China’s imperial examination system during the Northern Song dynasty that anonymized exam submissions and ended local officials’ discretion to recommend candidates.

Most unemployment insurance (UI) systems condition the potential duration of benefits on claimants' work history, yet little evidence exists on whether doing so is socially optimal. We study this ...

This paper examines the long-term effects of early-life exposure to county health departments (CHDs), a public health initiative aimed at providing affordable healthcare access to disadvantaged and ...

As renewable generation plays a growing role in the energy system, periods of negative wholesale electricity prices are becoming increasingly common and are expected to grow dramatically over the next ...

Do family policies reduce gender inequality in the labor market? We contribute to this debate by investigating the joint impact of parental leave and child care, using administrative data covering the ...

The global COVID-19 vaccination campaign is the largest public health campaign in history, with over 2 billion people fully vaccinated within the first 8 months. Nevertheless, the impact of this ...

Labor market tightness following the height of the Covid-19 pandemic led to an unexpected compression in the US wage distribution that reflects, in part, an increase in labor market competition. Rapid ...