BFI Working Paper·Mar 10, 2026

Work from Home and Fertility

Cevat Giray Aksoy, Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Katelyn Cranney, Steven J. Davis, Mathias Dolls, and Pablo Zarate
Topics: COVID-19, Health care, Technology & Innovation
BFI Working Paper·Mar 6, 2026

Efficiency, Insurance, and Redistribution Effects of Government Policies

Anmol Bhandari, David Evans, Mikhail Golosov, and Thomas J. Sargent
Topics: Fiscal Studies
BFI Working Paper·Feb 23, 2026

Multidimensional Signaling and the Rise of Cultural Politics

Daron Acemoglu, Georgy Egorov, and Konstantin Sonin
Topics: Uncategorized
BFI Working Paper·Feb 18, 2026

Trading Goods for Lives: NAFTA’s Mortality Impacts and Implications

Amy Finkelstein, Matthew Notowidigdo, and Steven Shi
Topics: Employment & Wages
BFI Working Paper·Feb 17, 2026

Mass Media and Contraception Use: An Experimental Test of Modernization Theory in Burkina Faso

Rachel Glennerster, Joanna Murray, and Victor Pouliquen
Topics: Development Economics
BFI Working Paper·Feb 17, 2026

Dynamic Complementarity

James Heckman, Haihan Tian, Zijian Zhang, and Jin Zhou
Topics: Early Childhood Education
BFI Working Paper·Feb 16, 2026

Income Shocks and the Intergenerational Transmission of Executive Function

Ariel Kalil and Mauricio Koechlin
Topics: Early Childhood Education, Economic Mobility & Poverty
BFI Working Paper·Feb 10, 2026

How Does AI Distribute the Pie? Large Language Models and the Ultimatum Game

Douglas K.G. Araujo and Harald Uhlig
Topics: Technology & Innovation
BFI Working Paper·Feb 10, 2026

Residential Segregation and Unequal Access to Local Public Services in India: Evidence from 1.5m Neighborhoods

Sam Asher, Kritarth Jha, Paul Novosad, Anjali Adukia, and Brandon Tan
Topics: Development Economics
BFI Working Paper·Feb 10, 2026

Searching for Fish in Trees (緣木求魚)? Economic Development when Context Matters

Jacob Moscona, Nathan Nunn, and James Robinson
Topics: Development Economics