BFI Working Paper·Aug 14, 2026

A Novel Assessment of Epistemic Curiosity and its Association With Early Learning Outcomes

Ariel Kalil, Mauricio Koechlin, Dana McCoy, Michelle Michelini, and Terri Sabol
Topics: Early Childhood Education
BFI Working Paper·Aug 12, 2026

Robust Signal Maximization in Spillover Experiments

Kirill Borusyak, Peter Hull, and Evan Munro
Topics: Development Economics
BFI Working Paper·Aug 12, 2026

From Substitutes to Complements: Human Capital Allocation between Social and Technological Innovation

Felipe Chávez-Bustamante and Cristián Troncoso-Valverde
BFI Working Paper·Aug 12, 2026

Working Hours Policy Reform: Micro and Macro Impacts

Mauricio Tejada and Benjamín Villena Roldán
BFI Working Paper·Aug 12, 2026

Sticky Wage Norms and the Real Wage Cost of Unexpected Inflation

Erik Hurst, Christina Patterson, Nela Richardson, and Ye Liv Wang
Topics: Employment & Wages
BFI Working Paper·Aug 4, 2026

Designing Around Selection: Identification and Inference Under Multi-Dimensional Unobserved Heterogeneity

Brent R. Hickman, John List, Ian Muir, and Gregory K. Sun
Topics: Industrial Organization
BFI Working Paper·Aug 4, 2026

The Value of Behavioral Policies

John List, Matthias Rodemeier, Sutanuka Roy, and Gregory K. Sun
Topics: Tax & Budget
BFI Working Paper·Jul 28, 2026

Reserves and the Buyer of Last Resort

Frédéric Boissay and Harald Uhlig
Topics: Financial Markets
BFI Working Paper·Jul 27, 2026

Relating Cognitive Skills and Personality Traits to Economic Preferences: Decision-Making under Cognitive Shocks and Guessing

Cesar Chavez Padilla, Shuaizhang Feng, James Heckman, and Zhe Yang
Topics: K-12 Education