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Research Briefs·May 27, 2026

Consuming Values

Jacob Conway and Levi Boxell
When firms take controversial social stances, consumers most aligned with the stance increase their spending significantly, while those most opposed...
Podcasts episode·May 26, 2026

Tied to the Job: The Gains from Permanent Residency

Tess Vigeland and Matthew Notowidigdo
When immigrant workers come to a country on a visa tied to a single employer, what is it worth to...
Research Briefs·May 21, 2026

Why Bans Fail: Tipping Points and Australia’s Social Media Ban

Leonardo Bursztyn, Angela Duckworth, Rafael Jiménez-Durán, Aaron Leonard, Filip Milojević, Christopher Roth, and Cass R. Sunstein
Roughly one in four 14-15-year-old Australian youth complied with a recent ban of social media, far below the two-thirds needed...
Topics: Technology & Innovation
Research Briefs·May 15, 2026

Physician Competition: Entry and Substitution

Joshua Gottlieb and Sean Nicholson
The physician pipeline, which is regulated by caps on medical school seats and which directs the most proficient trainees to...
Research Briefs·May 13, 2026

The Hidden Cost of Stock Market Concentration: When Funds Hit Regulatory Limits

Lubos Pastor, Taisiya Sikorskaya, and Jinrui Wang
Regulatory limits on fund portfolio concentration can distort stock prices by limiting the ability of optimistic investors to buy as...
Research Briefs·May 7, 2026

International Comparison of Physician Incomes

Aidan Buehler, Joshua Gottlieb, Jeffrey Hicks, Lisa Laun, Mårten Palme, Maria Polyakova, Victoria Udalova, and Maria Ventura
Physician incomes in the United States, Canada, Sweden, and the Netherlands are concentrated in the top percentiles of the income...
Podcasts episode·May 5, 2026

Life as a Lab: John List on the Art and Ethics of Field Experiments

Tess Vigeland and John List
Have you taken a Lyft, shopped at Walmart, or used Facebook in the last decade? If so, you’ve likely been...
Research Briefs·Apr 29, 2026

The Rise of Healthcare Jobs

Joshua Gottlieb, Kevin Rinz, Neale Mahoney, and Victoria Udalova
Healthcare is the largest industry by employment in the United States; earnings for healthcare workers have risen nearly twice as...
Podcasts episode·Apr 28, 2026

Wealth of Institutions: Randall Kroszner on Why Markets Stayed Calm While the Fed Came Under Fire

Tess Vigeland and Randall S. Kroszner
Earlier this year, former Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned that political pressure on the Federal Reserve could turn the U.S....