
Insights / Research Brief•May 26, 2023
Gang Rule: Understanding and Countering Criminal Governance
Christopher Blattman, Gustavo Duncan, Benjamin Lessing, Santiago Tobón
In Medellín, Colombia, gangs provide residents of low- and middle-income neighborhoods with key governing services to reduce the need for state presence, thereby protecting their drug profits. Increased state presence leads to increased gang presence, suggesting new strategies for countering criminal governance.
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Development Economics

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Day 3 – Opening High Level Plenary (AIM for Climate Summit)
Michael Kremer
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Insights / Research Brief•May 22, 2023
Interactive Research Brief: The Evolution of Platform Gig Work, 2012-2021
Andrew Garin, Emilie Jackson, Dmitri Koustas, Alicia Miller
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Insights / Research Brief•May 22, 2023
Judging Nudging: Understanding the Welfare Effects of Nudges Versus Taxes
John A. List, Matthias Rodemeier, Sutanuka Roy, Gregory K. Sun
A combination of nudges and taxes always outperforms each policy in isolation; however, there is large variation in how much these combinations add to social welfare, reinforcing the importance of empirically quantifying welfare effects.
Topics:
Fiscal Studies

Insights / Research Brief•May 19, 2023
Debt Moratoria: Evidence from Student Loan Forbearance
Ching-Tse Chen, Michael Dinerstein, Constantine Yannelis
Relative to borrowers who had to continue paying their loans, borrowers allowed to pause their payments sharply increased mortgage, auto, and credit card borrowing, with little effect on loan delinquencies.
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Fiscal Studies
Insights / Podcast episode•May 16, 2023
Can ChatGPT Describe Company Performance Better than… the Company?
Tess Vigeland, Maximilian Muhn, Alex Kim
The number of ways we can use AI is exploding, and it’s expected to change...
Insights / Research Brief•May 12, 2023
Protected: Interactive Research Brief: Measuring the Characteristics and Employment Dynamics of U.S. Inventors
Ufuk Akcigit, Nathan Goldschlag
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Topics:
Employment & Wages

Insights / Research Brief•May 11, 2023
Toward an Understanding of Tax Amnesties: Theory and Evidence From a Natural Field Experiment
Patricia Gil, Justin E. Holz, John A. List, Andrew Simon, Alejandro Zentner
Receiving a message about a tax amnesty program (especially deterrence messages) increases the likelihood of joining the amnesty and repaying some debt; importantly, such amnesties do not cause a reduction in tax payments over the following two years, contrary to existing theoretical predictions.
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Fiscal Studies