Research Briefs·Nov 11, 2024

Carbon Burden

Lubos Pastor, Robert F. Stambaugh, and Lucian A. Taylor
The US corporate sector’s “carbon burden” (the present value of social costs of its future carbon emissions) is 131% of...
Topics: Energy & Environment
Podcast Oct 29, 2024

Economics Meets Ecology: The Huge Costs of Ecosystem Declines

Tess Vigeland and Eyal Frank
Bats are considered a natural pesticide. When they began to die out due to an invasive fungus, farmers turned to...
Topics: Energy & Environment
Research Briefs·Sep 27, 2024

Toward an Understanding of the Economics of Prosumers: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

John List, Ioannis C. Pragidis, and Michael K. Price
Nudging energy prosumers to conserve via a home energy report reduces their energy consumption, with significant variation across seasons and...
Topics: Energy & Environment
Podcast Jul 9, 2024

The Uncertainties of Climate Change

How can we incentivize the private and public sectors to develop and deploy solutions to climate change, while accounting for...
Topics: Energy & Environment
Interactive Research Briefs·May 14, 2024

Return to Office and the Tenure Distribution

Austin Wright, David Van Dijcke, and Florian Gunsilius
Return-to-office (RTO) mandates drive employees away from firms, with senior employees leaving at the highest rates, likely leading to significant...
Topics: COVID-19, Employment & Wages
Research Briefs·Mar 7, 2024

What Drives Inflation? Lessons from Disaggregated Price Data

Elisa Rubbo
US inflation in the early phases of the COVID pandemic was entirely driven by disruptions in supply and demand across...
Topics: COVID-19, Monetary Policy
Research Briefs·Feb 1, 2024

Quantifying the Social Value of a Universal COVID-19 Vaccine and Incentivizing Its Development

Rachel Glennerster, Thomas Kelly, Claire T. McMahon, and Christopher M. Snyder
A universal COVID-19 vaccine that is effective against existing and future variants could provide the United States population with $1.5–$2.6...
Topics: COVID-19
Research Briefs·Nov 15, 2023

Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts: Aggregate vs. Aggregated Inflation Expectations

Alexander Dietrich, Edward S. Knotek II, Kristian O. Myrseth, Robert W. Rich, Raphael Schoenle, and Michael Weber
A novel measure of consumer inflation expectations that is constructed by combining forecasts from across different categories of consumption is...
Topics: COVID-19
Research Briefs·Oct 3, 2023

Private Actions in the Presence of Externalities: The Health Impacts of Reducing Air Pollution Peaks but not Ambient Exposure

Joshua Dean and Susanna B. Berkouwer
Improved cookstoves reduce exposure to peak cooking emissions by 42%, though impacts on overall pollution exposure are muted by high...
Topics: Development Economics, Energy & Environment, Health care