BFI Data Studio·Jun 17, 2026

Carbon Prices, Forest Conservation and Reforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

Juliano J. Assunção, Lars Peter Hansen, Todd Munson, and José A. Scheinkman
With modest transfers per ton of net COâ‚‚, Brazil would find it optimal to choose policies that produce substantial capture...
BFI Data Studio·Jun 10, 2026

Nursing Homes: Predictably Unpredictable Inspections

Ashvin Gandhi, Andrew Olenski, and Maggie Shi
In the United States, regulators inspect nursing homes to ensure compliance with quality, safety, and other standards. While these inspections...
Podcasts episode·Jun 9, 2026

How Should Parents Respond When Grades are Good, But Test Scores are Bad?

Tess Vigeland and Ariel Kalil
When a child brings home good grades but low standardized test scores, which signal should parents pay attention to? In...
Topics: K-12 Education
Research Briefs·Jun 3, 2026

Does Scarcity Tax Parents’ Minds?

Ariel Kalil and Mauricio Koechlin
When financial scarcity prevents parents from reading with their children, the bottleneck is reduced attention rather than lessened self-control, driven...
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...