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Profiling Insurrection: Characterizing Collective Action Using Mobile Device Data

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“Drive and Wave”: The Response to LAPD Police Reforms After Rampart

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Research / BFI Working Paper•Aug 12, 2022

Superiority-Seeking and the Preference for Exclusion

Alex Imas, Kristóf Madarász

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Research / BFI Working Paper•Aug 12, 2022

Non-Covid Excess Deaths, 2020-21: Collateral Damage of Policy Choices?

Casey Mulligan, Robert D. Arnott

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Research / BFI Working Paper•Aug 10, 2022

The Political Economy of the Decline of Antitrust Enforcement in the United States

Filippo Lancieri, Eric Posner, Luigi Zingales

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Media Mention•Aug 09, 2022

Minimum Wages Are Going Up. Jobs May Disappear.

Bloomberg; Erik Hurst

Media Mention•Aug 08, 2022

Better Solutions For Rx Problems

Forbes; Tomas Philipson

Media Mention•Aug 08, 2022

Don’t make these 401(k) mistakes as stocks slide and inflation soars

CBS News; Richard Thaler

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