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.
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September 30, 2022
Professor Elizabeth Cascio and co-author Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach's paper "First in the Class? Age and the Education Production Function" published in 2016 is featured in this article in The Atlantic magazine.
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.
August 23, 2022
Prof. Eric Zitzewitz's study of prediction markets informs this New York Times article.
August 22, 2022
A recent paper published in JAMA, co-authored by Prof. Jonathan Skinner, is the source for this news article from Policygenius.
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.
December 09, 2021
This article by Fabiola Cineas in VOX on the Biden administration's plan for funding the expansion of pre-k relies on Professor Elizabeth Cascio's research
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.
July 29, 2021
Prof. Steve Mello's research on speeding tickets and leniency reveal racial biases of individual officers.
March 24, 2021
Professor Sacerdote and student co-authors Ranjan Sehgal '22 and Molly Cook of Brown University have a working paper on media bias in Covid-19 reporting.