Finding•Mar 03, 2021
Unemployment Insurance in Macroeconomic Stabilization
Rohan Kekre
Unemployment insurance extensions stimulate output and employment when monetary policy is constrained, as during the Great Recession.
Topics:
Employment & Wages
Finding•Feb 26, 2021
“Drive and Wave”: The Response to LAPD Police Reforms After Rampart
Canice Prendergast
The arrest-to-crime rate fell 40% after accountability to the public rose, then rebounded to its original level when accountability fell.
Finding•Feb 25, 2021
Fiscal Policy and Households’ Inflation Expectations: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial
Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Michael Weber
Information about current debt or deficit levels has little impact on inflation expectations, but news about future debt leads households to anticipate higher inflation, both in the short run and long run.
Topics:
Fiscal Studies
Finding•Feb 18, 2021
Informed Choices: Gender Gaps in Career Advice
Yana Gallen, Melanie Wasserman
When students seek information from business professionals about careers, female students receive substantially more information on work/life balance relative to male students; in contrast, professionals mention workplace culture to male and female students at similar rates.
Topics:
Employment & Wages
Finding•Feb 17, 2021
Does Private Equity Investment in Healthcare Benefit Patients? Evidence from Nursing Homes
Atul Gupta, Sabrina T. Howell, Constantine Yannelis, Abhinav Gupta
Private equity ownership (PE) increases the short-term mortality of Medicare patients by 10%, implying 20,150 lives lost due to PE ownership over a twelve-year sample period.
Topics:
Financial Markets, Health care
Finding•Feb 12, 2021
Low Energy: Estimating Electric Vehicle Electricity Use
Fiona Burlig, James B. Bushnell, David S. Rapson, Catherine Wolfram
Based on extensive California data, the average electric vehicle increases overall household load by 2.9 kilowatt-hours per day, or less than half the amount assumed by state regulators, and likely travel under half of the US fleet average, raising questions about transportation electrification for climate policy.
Topics:
Energy & Environment

Finding•Feb 12, 2021
Tax Refund Uncertainty: Evidence and Welfare Implications
Sydnee Caldwell, Scott Nelson, Daniel Waldinger
Low-income tax-filers have substantial subjective uncertainty about tax refunds; this research suggests that refund uncertainty reduces the welfare benefits of the EITC by about 10 percent.
Topics:
Fiscal Studies
Finding•Feb 10, 2021
The Social Side of Early Human Capital Formation: Using a Field Experiment to Estimate the Causal Impact of Neighborhoods
John List, Fatemeh Momeni, Yves Zenou
This work reveals the importance of public programs and neighborhoods on human capital formation at an early age, highlighting that human capital accumulation is fundamentally a social activity.
Topics:
Early Childhood Education