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When firms take controversial social stances, consumers most aligned with the stance increase their spending significantly, while those most opposed reduce theirs, although at a lower rate; these behaviors persist beyond the initial announcement.

Roughly one in four 14-15-year-old Australian youth complied with a recent ban of social media, far below the two-thirds needed for young teenagers to consider compliance worthwhile. Current patterns suggest that compliance is more likely to diminish than to increase.

The physician pipeline, which is regulated by caps on medical school seats and which directs the most proficient trainees to high-paying specialties, faces competition from the rise of nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and other mid-level practitioners, forcing competition policy in...

Regulatory limits on fund portfolio concentration can distort stock prices by limiting the ability of optimistic investors to buy as much as they would like, which causes constrained funds to perform worse than otherwise.

Physician incomes in the United States, Canada, Sweden, and the Netherlands are concentrated in the top percentiles of the income distribution, though incomes are highest in the United States, mainly reflecting differences in overall income distributions, which suggests that broader...

Healthcare is the largest industry by employment in the United States; earnings for healthcare workers have risen nearly twice as fast as those in other industries since 1980 to 2022, including relatively large increases in the middle and upper-middle parts...

Married couples in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh jointly prefer that husbands work over wives, consistent with the fact that men’s employment raises both partners’ wellbeing, while women’s employment raises only the woman’s. Yet, six weeks of women’s employment substantially...

Though voters primarily care about economic issues, this paper offers a theoretical explanation for why cultural issues (immigration, nationalism, etc.) have become so central to modern politics, and how cultural issues signal a politician’s economic policies.

This paper presents a novel national analysis of segregation and access to public services in India’s urban and rural neighborhoods, revealing that the country’s growing cities (considered engines of upward mobility) largely replicate the caste and religious disparities of its...

An Illinois reform that shortened the duration of supervision for parolees from 12 to 6 months reduced prison re-entry rates by around 45%, with no evidence of increased crime.