Faculty Publications
Below is a small selection of some of our faculty's recent publications and working papers. You can also view faculty by field or in alphabetical order.
Some Recent Research
"Failures of Contingent Reasoning in Annuitization Decisions,” Erzo F.P. Luttmer, Priscila De Oliveira, and Dmitry Taubinsky, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Vol. 18, No. 3, August 2026.
"The Effect of Low-Skill Immigration Restrictions on US Firms and Workers: Evidence from a Randomized Lottery,” Michael A. Clemens and Ethan G. Lewis, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics Vol. 18, No. 3, July 2026.
"Examining Selection Pressures in the Publication Process through the Lens of Sniff Tests," Christopher Snyder," Ran Zhuo, The Review of Economics and Statistics, May 2026
"Asylum seekers and the rise in homelessness,” Bruce D. Meyer, Angela Wyse, Douglas Williams, Journal of Public Economics, Volume 255, March 2026
"Five-Year Impacts of Group-Based Financial Education and Savings Promotion for Ugandan Youth,” Samantha Horn, Julian C. Jamison, Dean Karlan, Jonathan Zinman, The Review of Economics and Statistics, January 2026.
"Legacies of liberation: political dynamics in Civil War refugee camps," Diego Ramos-Toro, The Journal of Economic Growth, August 2025.
"The declining mental health of the young and the global disappearance of the hump shape in age in unhappiness," David G. Blanchflower, Alex Bryson, and Xiaowei Xu, Plos One, August 2025.
"How do business owners respond to a tax cut? Examining the 199A deduction for pass-through firms," Lucas Goodman, Katherine Lim, Bruce Sacerdote, Andrew Whitten, The Journal of Public Economics, February 2025.
"Fines and Financial Wellbeing," Steve Mellow, The Review of Economic Studies, November 2024.
"On the Equilibrium Properties of Spatial Models," Treb Allen, Costas Arkolakis, Xiangliang Li, American Economic Review: Inisights
Vol. 6, No. 4, December 2024 (pp. 472–89)
"The Emergence of the Socioeconomic Gradient in Women's Marriage Outcomes," Claudia Olivetti, M. Daniele Paserman, Laura Salisbury, E. Anna Weber, The Review of Economics and Statistics, May2024
"Heteroskedastic supply and demand estimation: Analysis and testing," Matthew Grant, Anson Soderbery, Journal of International Economics, Volume 150, July 2024, 103817
"The Traveling Trucker Problem," Treb Allen, David Atkin, Santiago Cantillo Cleves, Carlos Eduardo Hernandez, AEA Papers and Proceedings Vol. 114, May 2024 (pp. 334–39)
"Corporate social responsibility and voting over public goods," Andrew A. Samwick and Sophie Wang, Global Finance Journal, Volume 60, May 2024, 100940
"Standing in international investment and trade disputes," Ralph Ossa, Robert W. Staiger, and Alan O. Sykes, Journal of International Economics
Volume 145, November 2023
"The Educational Consequences of Remote and Hybrid Instruction during the Pandemic," Dan Goldhaber, Thomas J. Kane, Andrew McEachin, Emily Morton, Tyler Patterson, and Douglas O. Staiger, American Economic Review: Insights Vol. 5, Issue 3 September 2023
"What explains different rates of nursing home admissions? Comparing the United States to Denmark and the Netherlands," Judith Bom, Pieter Bakx, Eddy van Doorslaer, Mette Gørtz, Jonathan Skinner, The Journal of the Economics of Ageing Volume 25, June 2023
"Social Exclusion and Social Preferences: Evidence from Colombia's Leper Colony," Diego Ramos-Toro, American Economic Review Vol. 113 No. 5
"Effects of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Cash Transfers on Older Persons Living Alone in India," Madeline McKelway, Abhijit Banerjee, Erin Grela, Frank Schilbach, Miriam Sequeira, et al., Annals of Internal Medicine, April 2023
"Shocks and Technology Adoption: Evidence from Electronic Payment Systems," Nicolas Crouzet, Apoorv Gupta, and Filippo Mezzanotti, Journal of Political Economy, No. 3, Vol 131, March 2023
"Seasonality and the Female Happiness Paradox," David G. Blanchflower and Alex Bryson, Quality & Quantity, February 2023.
"Quantifying the Costs and Benefits of Quantitative Easing," Andrew T. Levin, Brian L. Lu & William R. Nelson, NBER Working Paper 30749, December 2022
"Volatility and the Gains from Trade," Treb Allen and David Atkin, Econometrica, Vol.90, No.5 (September 2022), 2053-2092
"Mortality Change among Less Educated Americans," Paul Novosad, Charlie Rafkin, and Sam Asher, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics vol. 14, no. 4, October 2022
"Cutting Out the Middleman: The Structure of Chains of Intermediation," Matthew Grant and Meredith Startz, NBER Working Paper June 2022
"Bridging the Technological Divide : Technology Adoption by Firms in Developing Countries," Diego Comin, Xavier Cirera, Marcio Cruz, The World Bank Productivity Project
"Insurance Design and Pharmaceutical Innovation," Leila Agha, Soomi Kim, and Danielle Li, American Economic Review: Insights Vol. 4, Issue 2 June 2022
"Drug Diffusion through Peer Networks: The Influence of Industry Payments," Leila Agha and Dan Zeltzer, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 2022, 14(2): 1–33
"Do senators and house members beat the stock market? Evidence from the STOCK Act," William Belmont, Bruce Sacerdote, Ranjan Sehgal and IanVan Hoek, Journal of Public Economics Volume 207, March 2022, 104602
"The economics of social entrepreneurship," Andrew A. Samwick, The Journal of Economic Education, DOI: 10.1080/00220485.2022.2038329, Feb 2022
"Testing fractional doses of COVID-19 vaccines," Witold WieRceka, Amrita Ahujab, Esha Chaudhuria, Michael Kremera, Alexandre Simoes Gomesa, Christopher M. Snyder, Alex Tabarrokf, and Brandon Joel Tang, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 2022 Vol. 119 No. 8
"Neighborhoods Matter: Assessing the Evidence for Place Effects," Eric Chyn and Lawrence F. Katz, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Volume 35, Number 4, Fall 2021—Pages 197–222
"Rising Geographic Disparities in US Mortality," Benjamin K. Couillard, Christopher L. Foote, Kavish Gandhi, Ellen Meara, and Jonathan Skinner, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Volume 35, Number 4, Fall 2021, Pages 123–146
"A Simple Method for Bounding the Elasticity of Growing Demand with Applications to the Analysis of Historic Antitrust Cases," Wallace P. Mullin, Christopher M. Snyder, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics vol. 13, no. 4, November 2021 (pp. 172-217)
"Distance, trade, and income — The 1967 to 1975 closing of the Suez canal as a natural experiment," James Feyrer, Journal of Development Economics Volume 153, November 2021, 102708.
"The Long-Run Effects of School Racial Diversity on Political Identity," Stephen B. Billings, Eric T. Chyn, Kareem Haggag, American Economic Review: Insights, vol. 3, no. 3 September 2021 (pp. 267-84)
"Social Norms, Labour Market Opportunities, and the Marriage Gap Between Skilled and Unskilled Women," Marianne Bertrand, Patricia Cortes, Claudia Olivetti, Jessica Pan, The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 88, Issue 4, July 2021, Pages 1936–1978.
"Quantitative Analysis of Multiparty Tariff Negotiations," Kyle Bagwell, Robert W. Staiger, Ali Yurukoglu, Econometrica: July 2021, Volume 89, Issue 4.
"A Few Bad Apples Racial Bias in Policing," Felipe Goncalves, Steven Mello, American Economic Review 2021, 111(5): 1406-1441.
"Pay Me Later: Savings Constraints and the Demand for Deferred Payments," Lasse Brune, Eric Chyn, Jason Kerwin, American Economic Review 2021, 111(7): 2179-2212.
"Structural Change with Long-run Income and Price effects," Diego Comin, Martí Mestieri, Danial Lashkari, Econometrica: January 2021, Volume 89, Issue 1, pp 311-374.
"Universal Gravity," Treb Allen, Costas Arkolakis, Yuta Takahashi, Journal of Political Economy 2020 Volume 128 (2): 393-433.
"Children, unhappiness and family finances," David G. Blanchflower, Andrew E. Clark, Journal of Population Economics 34, 625-653 (2021)
"Does Universal Preschool Hit the Target? Program Access and Preschool Impacts," Elizabeth Cascio, Journal of Human Resources 0220-10728R1; published ahead of print January 11, 2021.
"Geographic Dispersion of Economic Shocks: Evidence from the Fracking revolution: Reply," James Feyrer, Erin Mansur, Bruce Sacerdote, American Economic Review, Vol 110(6): 1914-1920, June 2020.
James Feyrer, "Trade and Income—Exploiting Time Series in Geography" American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, October 2019
Eric Zitzewitz, "An Event Long-Short Index: Theory and Applications" (with Raymond Fisman), American Economic Review: Insights, December 2019
Jonathan Zinman, "Long-run price elasticities of demand for microcredit: Evidence from a countrywide field experiment in MexicoOpens in a new window" (with Dean Karlan), Review of Economic Studies, July 2019
Na'ama Shenhav, "A Reason to Wait: The Effect of Legal Status on Teen Pregnancy" (with Elira Kuka and Kevin Shih), American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, May 2019.
Erzo Luttmer, "The Value of Medicaid: Interpreting Results from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment" (with Amy Finkelstein and Nathaniel Hendren), Journal of Political Economy Volume 127, Number 6, December 2019
Diego Comin, "Endogenous Technology Adoption and R&D as Sources of Business Cycle Persistence" (with Diego Anzoategui, Mark Gertler and Joseba Martinez) American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, July 2019
Nina Pavcnik, "Export Markets and Labor Allocation in a Low-Income Country" (with Brian McCaig) American Economic Review, July 2018.
Diego Comin, "If Technology Has Arrived Everywhere, Why Has Income Diverged?" (with Martí Mestieri) American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, July 2018.
Ethan Lewis, "Immigration Restrictions as Active Labor Market Policy: Evidence from the Mexican Bracero Exclusion" (with Michael A. Clemens, Hannah M. Postel) American Economic Review, June 2018.
Jonathan Skinner, "Health Care Employment Growth and the Future of US Cost Containment" (with Amitabh Chandra) JAMA, April 2018.
Erzo Luttmer, Andrew Samwick, "The Welfare Cost of Perceived Policy Uncertainty: Evidence from Social Security" American Economic Review, 108(2), pp. 275-307, February 2018
Paul Novosad, "Who Runs the International System? Nationality and Leadership in the United Nations Secretariat" (with Eric Werker) The Review of International Organizations, January 2018
Patricia Anderson, "Beyond Income: What Else Predicts Very Low Food Security among Children?" (with Kristin F. Butcher, Hilary W. Hoynes, and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach) 2014.
Elizabeth Cascio, "Proposal 1: Expanding Preschool Access for Disadvantaged Children" (with Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach), The Hamilton Project-Policies to Address Poverty in America, p21 2014.
Eric Zitzewitz, "Does transparency reduce favoritism and corruption? Evidence from the reform of figure skating judging" 2014.
David Blanchflower, "Labour Market Slack in the UK" (With David N.F. Bell) 2014.
Nina Pavcnik, "Women's Role in the Swiss Economy" 2014.
David Blanchflower, "Falling Real Wages" 2014.
Diego Comin, "Technology Adoption and Growth Dynamics" 2014.
Eric Edmonds, "Does minimum age of employment regulation reduce child labor?" 2014.
Avner Bar-Ilan and Nancy Marion, "Demand for Cash with intra-period engodgenous consumption" Science Direct 2013
Diego Comin, "From green users to green voters" 2013.
Diego Comin, "Technology diffusion: Measurement, causes and consequences" 2013.
Andreas Moxnes, "The Margins of Multinational Production and the Role of Intrafirm Trade" (with Alfonso Irarrazabal and Luca David Opromolla) Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 121, No. 1 (February 2013), pp. 74-126
David Blanchflower, "Does high Home-Ownership Impair the Labor Market?" (with Andrew J. Oswald), Peterson Institute Working Paper 13-3, May 2013.
David Blanchflower, "Does high Home-Ownership Impair the Labor Market?" (with Andrew J. Oswald), Peterson Institute Working Paper 13-3, May 2013.
Elizabeth Cascio, "The Impacts of Expanding Access to High-Quality Preschool Education" (with Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach), 2013.
Elizabeth Cascio, "Local Responses to Federal Grants: Evidence from the introduction of Title I in the South" (with Nora Gordon and Sarah Reber), 2013.
Taryn Dinkelman, "Investing in schooling in Chile: The role of information about financial aid for higher education", (with Claudia Martínez A), forthcoming, Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013.
James Feyrer and Bruce Sacerdote, "How Much Would US Style Fiscal Integration Buffer European Unemployment and Income Shocks? (A Comparative Empirical Analysis)," American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, May 2013.
Alan L. Gustman, (2013)." Redistribution under the Social Security benefit formula at the individual and household levels, 1992 and 2004." (with Thomas L. Steinmeier and Nahid Tabatabai), Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 12, pp 127
Erzo F.P. Luttmer, "What Good is Wealth Without Health? The Effect of Health on the Marginal Utility of Consumption," (with Amy Finkelstein and Matthew J. Notowidigdo), Journal of the European Economic Association, 11(s1), pp. 221-258, January 2013.
Simone Schaner, "Price Subsidies, Diagnostic Tests, and Targeting of Malaria Treatment: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial," (with Jessica Cohen and Pascaline Dupas), NBER Working Paper #17943, March 2012 (revised February, 2013).
Eric Zitzewitz, "Corporate Prediction Markets: Evidence from Google, Ford, and Firm X1" 2013.
Elizabeth Cascio, "Cracks in the Melting Pot: Immigration, School Choice, and Segregation" 2012.
Patricia Anderson, "Parental employment, family routines and childhood obesity" 2012.
Patricia Anderson, "Adequate (or Adipose?) Yearly Progress: Assessing the Effect of "No Child Left Behind" on Children's Obesity (Comments Welcome)" 2012.
Eric Edmonds, "Poverty Alleviation and Child Labor," (with N. Schady), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 4(4): 100-124, November 2012
Douglas Irwin, "Trade Policy Disaster: Lessons from the 1930s," MIT Press, 2012.
Robert Johnson, "Value-Added Exchange Rates," (with Rudolfs Bems), NBER Working Paper 18498, October 2012.
Erin Mansur, "What Do Emissions Markets Deliver and to Whom? Evidence from Southern California's NOx Trading Program," (with Meredith Fowlie and Stephen P. Holland), American Economic Review, Volume 102, Issue 2, April 2012, pp. 965-993.
Bruce Sacerdote, "Katrina's Children: Evidence on the Structure of Peer Effects," (with Scott Imberman and Adriana Kugler) American Economic Review, Vol. 102, No. 5 (August 2012), pp. 2048-82.
Andrew A. Samwick, "Donating the Voucher: An Alternative Tax Treatment of Private School Enrollment," NBER Working Paper No. 18525, November 2012.
Joshua Schwartzstein, "Behavioral Hazard in Health Insurance" (joint with Katherine Baicker and Sendhil Mullainathan), NBER Working Paper #18468, October 2012.
Jonathan Skinner, "Technology Growth and Expenditure Growth in Health Care," (with Amitabh Chandra), Journal of Economic Literature, 50(3):645-80, September 2012.
Jonathan Skinner, Christopher Snyder, "Spending Differences Associated with the Medicare Physician Group Practice Demonstration," (with C Colla, D Wennberg, E Meara, D Gottlieb, V Lewis and E Fisher ), JAMA 2012; 308(10):1015-1023.
Douglas Staiger, "Information and Employee Evaluation: Evidence from a Randomized Intervention in Public Schools," (with Jonah Rockoff, Thomas Kane, and Eric Taylor), American Economic Review, 102(7):3184-3213, 2012.
Eric Zitzewitz, "Forensic Economics," Journal of Economic Literature, September 2012.
Nina Pavcnik, "Prices, Markups and Trade Reform" (with J De Loecker, P. Goldberg, A. Khandelwal), NBER Working Paper 17925
Bruce Sacerdote, "From Natural Variation to Optimal Policy? The Importance of Endogenous Peer Group Formation," (with Scott Carrell and James West) forthcoming, Econometrica.