Research Briefs·Sep 29, 2026

Evaluating the Spatial Consequences of a Climate Tipping Point

José-Luis Cruz, Klaus Desmet, and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
What Is the AMOC?  The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) carries warm, salty surface water from the subtropics toward the...
Podcasts episode·Sep 29, 2026

Why Your Raise Didn’t Keep Up with Inflation

Tess Vigeland and Erik Hurst
By 2024, inflation was falling and unemployment was low, yet consumer confidence had sunk to levels last seen during the...
Research Briefs·Sep 24, 2026

How Disability Benefits in Early Life Affect Adult Outcomes

Manasi Deshpande, Alessandra Voena, and Jason B. Weitze
Receiving Supplemental Security Income (SSI) in childhood increases children’s earnings in adulthood when parents continue working (and therefore total household...
Research Briefs·Sep 21, 2026

Zoning: Externalities or Misallocation?

Yu-Hsin Ho, Chang-Tai Hsieh, Wen-Tai Hsu, and Yu-Jhih Luo
Residential-commercial zoning in American cities increases neighborhood specialization and reduces resident welfare. The dominant effect of zoning is not to...
Podcasts episode·Sep 15, 2026

But the Cool Kids are Still Online: Behind Australia’s Failed Social Media Ban

Tess Vigeland and Leonardo Bursztyn
Last December, Australia banned social media for anyone under 16. Four months later, only one in four 14- and 15-year-olds...
Research Briefs·Sep 14, 2026

Proposed Mergers Where Efficiencies Are Needed Most Might Be the Least Likely to Deliver Them

Robert D. Metcalfe, Alexandre B. Sollaci, and Chad Syverson
Proposed mergers rarely offer both large efficiency gains and large market power gains, because either alone is enough to make...
Research Briefs·Sep 8, 2026

The Success of the Embedded State in England

Leander Heldring, Davis Kedrosky, and James Robinson
Some states govern effectively despite lacking the fiscal resources to fund a modern bureaucracy. This is true of the developing...
Topics: Fiscal Studies
Research Briefs·Sep 2, 2026

The Enjoyment Paradox: College-Educated Mothers Invest More in Their Children’s Learning and Enjoy It Less

Ariel Kalil, Haoxuan Liu, and Ritika Sethi
College-educated mothers spend more time on learning activities with their children despite reporting substantially lower enjoyment of those activities. This...
Podcasts episode·Sep 1, 2026

Cut Off: How US Sanctions are Reshaping the Global Payment System

Tess Vigeland and Brent Neiman
US sanctions on Russian banks have complex spillovers for the importers and exporters who transact in dollars. On this episode...