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Podcasts episode·Nov 10, 2026

Faster Food: Why Restaurant Productivity Finally Surged

For three decades, the number of meals a U.S. restaurant worker served per shift barely changed. Then, after a brief...
Research Briefs·Nov 4, 2026

Gains from Trade in Gun Policy: A Compensation-Based Benchmark

Brad Shapiro, Sara Drango, and Sarah Moshary
Paying prospective first-time handgun buyers to choose a long gun or no gun at all could avert up to 220...
Research Briefs·Oct 28, 2026

Capital-Skill Complementarity Beyond Firm Boundaries

Gert Bijnens, Anders Humlum, and Stijn Vanormelingen
New machinery raises demand for workers with STEM degrees, though not at the firms purchasing the machinery, but instead at...
Research Briefs·Oct 27, 2026

Crime in Covid Times

Jens Ludwig
Between 2019 and 2021, a nationwide increase in gun homicides pushed the U.S. murder rate up by a third, before...
Podcasts episode·Oct 27, 2026

Do Age Verification Laws Work? Evidence from Adult Websites

Tess Vigeland and Matthew Brown
Since 2023, 25 states have passed laws requiring adult websites to verify visitors’ ages. Meanwhile, total time spent on these...
Research Briefs·Oct 22, 2026

(How) Do We Teach Emotions?

Anjali Adukia, Matthew Bonci, Paula Dastres, Emileigh Harrison, Jake Nicoll, and Teodora Szasz
Educational materials can help children learn about emotions, but textbooks and children’s books present emotions differently in words and images....
Research Briefs·Oct 22, 2026

Stuck: Why Capital and Workers Don’t Go Where They’re Needed

Why Latin America Grows Slowly
Insight·Oct 19, 2026

Does Monetarism Still Have Currency?

Peter Coy
Fifty years ago, Milton Friedman won the Nobel Prize, and his best-known idea, monetarism, has been on a roller-coaster ever...
Podcasts episode·Oct 13, 2026

The Everywhere Millionaire: Who’s Really Rich in America

Tess Vigeland and Eric Zwick
Roughly 3 million Americans own private businesses and have a net worth of at least $5 million. Together they hold...