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article Prof. Novosad, Charlie Rafkin '16, and Sam Asher Publish in American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

October 03, 2022

In their paper, "Mortality Change among Less Educated Americans" Asher, Novosad, and Rafkin study U.S. mortality change over the last three decades. They develop an innovative measurement technique that solves a problem that has made it difficult to measure mortality change at specific education levels. They show that mortality changes, at constant education percentiles, can be bounded under minimal assumptions.

article Bruce Sacerdote Quoted in NYTimes

September 16, 2022

Professor Sacerdote's study, "Do senators and house members beat the stock market? Evidence from the STOCK Act," published in the Journal of Public Economics in March 2022 informs this New York Times article.

article Moved to Opportunity

January 20, 2022

Prof. Eric Chyn investigates how the public housing demolitions in Chicago during the 1990s affected the young adult outcomes of children from households that relocated.

article DACA's Impact on Educational Outcomes

August 20, 2021

Dr. Na'ama Shenhav's paper "Do Human Capital Decisions Respond to the Returns to Education? Evidence from DACA," provides evidence that the enactment of DACA has significantly increased high school attendance and graduation rates, reducing the gap in attendance and graduation by 40 percent between citizen and non-citizen immigrants.