Restrictions on spending SNAP benefits on sugary drinks reduced the average SNAP household’s retail purchases of excluded drinks by 12.4% over the first half of 2026. In states that excluded only some sugary drinks, SNAP households partially substituted to non-excluded...

Payroll records covering roughly one in seven US workers show that during the recent inflationary period, most firms kept annual raises around 3%, causing real wages to fall behind rising prices and, for many workers, never fully recover.

A new assessment for preschool-aged children generates two distinct measures of interest-type and deprivation-type curiosity, both internally consistent. Children’s vocabulary is associated with both measures, most strongly with deprivation-type curiosity, and the relationship is robust to a rich set of...

When a police officer is shot, is it safer to wait for an ambulance or to be driven straight to the hospital in a squad car? In this episode of The Pie, Prachi Sanghavi, an associate professor in the Department...