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Research Briefs·Apr 3, 2026

Trading Goods for Lives: NAFTA’s Mortality Impacts and Implications

Amy Finkelstein, Matthew Notowidigdo, and Steven Shi
In the 15 years post-NAFTA, an area with average NAFTA exposure experienced increased mortality overall; these mortality increases were particularly...
Podcasts episode·Mar 31, 2026

The War in Iran: Oil, Cyber Warfare, and Alliances

Tess Vigeland, Rebecca Wolfe, Ryan Kellogg, Paul Poast, and Jacob Braun
On February 28, the US and Israel launched airstrikes against Iran. Four weeks later, the conflict shows no signs of...
Research Briefs·Mar 30, 2026

A Few Bad Apples? Academic Dishonesty, Political Selection, and Institutional Performance in China

Zhuang Liu, Wenwei Peng, and Shaoda Wang
This paper documents the pervasiveness of plagiarism among Chinese graduate students and the implications for public service, revealing that plagiarists...
Research Briefs·Mar 30, 2026

Never Enough: Dynamic Status Incentives in Organizations

Leonardo Bursztyn, Ewan Rawcliffe, and Hans-Joachim Voth
An examination of the performance of WWII fighter pilots demonstrates the power of incentives: A tiered, expanding system of status-based...
Research Briefs·Mar 27, 2026

Income Shocks and the Intergenerational Transmission of Executive Function

Ariel Kalil and Mauricio Koechlin
Unconditional cash transfers may help attenuate the mother-child transmission of low executive function during early childhood. Providing unconditional cash support...
Research Briefs·Mar 24, 2026

A World Trading System For Whom? Evidence from Global Tariffs

Rodrigo Adão, John Sturm Becko, Arnaud Costinot, and Dave Donaldson
Global tariffs reveal substantial international cooperation at the onset of the 21st century. On average, countries place only about 25%...
Research Briefs·Mar 18, 2026

Inferring Prices from Quantities

David Argente, Chang-Tai Hsieh, and Munseob Lee
A new methodology for constructing an aggregate price index that corrects for two pervasive measurement problems reveals that an inflation...
Research Briefs·Mar 17, 2026

Managers and the Cultural Transmission of Gender Norms

Virginia Minni, Kieu-Trang Nguyen, Heather Sarsons, and Carla Srebot
When managers from countries with more progressive gender attitudes are assigned to a firm’s location in another country, gender pay...
Podcasts episode·Mar 17, 2026

The Geography of Human Capital: Why Rich Regions Stay Rich

Tess Vigeland and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
People in the Netherlands average nearly 11 years of schooling, compared to about 2.5 for those in the Central African...