BFI Working Paper·Oct 9, 2026
The Gendered Impacts of Perceived Skin Tone: Evidence from African American Siblings in 1870–1940
Ran Abramitzky, Jacob Conway, Roy Mill, and Luke C.D. Stein
Topics:
Economic Mobility & Poverty, Employment & Wages
BFI Working Paper·Oct 6, 2026
Provider and Worker Responses to Supply-Side Audits in Social Insurance
Pablo A. Celhay, Nicolás Figueroa, Carla Guadalupi, and Benjamín Oteíza
Topics:
Health care
BFI Working Paper·Oct 6, 2026
Do AI Assistants Reinforce Investor Beliefs? Evidence from Human and AI Replies
Swaminathan Balasubramaniam, Jorge Sabat, and Soumyajit Ray
Topics:
Technology & Innovation
BFI Working Paper·Oct 6, 2026
Latent Human Capital: How Early Investments in Parents Buffer Against Future Schooling Shocks
Shruti Jha, John List, Rebecca C. Royer, and Anya Samek
Topics:
Early Childhood Education, K-12 Education
BFI Working Paper·Oct 6, 2026
Consumption, Savings, and Earnings Responses to Financial Windfalls
Rajashri Chakrabarti, Philippe d'Astous, Kory Kroft, Sheisha Kulkarni, Vyacheslav Mikhed, Matthew Notowidigdo, Sahil Raina, and Barry Scholnick
Topics:
Employment & Wages
BFI Working Paper·Oct 6, 2026
Capital-Skill Complementarity Beyond Firm Boundaries
Gert Bijnens, Anders Humlum, and Stijn Vanormelingen
Topics:
Employment & Wages, Technology & Innovation
BFI Working Paper·Oct 6, 2026
Aligning Platform and User Incentives in Social Media Age Restrictions
Leonardo Bursztyn, Rafael Jiménez-Durán, Aaron Leonard, Filip Milojević, and Christopher Roth
Topics:
Technology & Innovation
BFI Working Paper·Oct 6, 2026
Optimal Line-Drawing for Legal Rules
Jacob Goldin and David Weisbach
Topics:
Uncategorized
BFI Working Paper·Sep 30, 2026
Group Beliefs
Benjamin Brooks and Songzi Du
Topics:
Industrial Organization
BFI Working Paper·Sep 30, 2026
Participation Security and Elementary Mechanisms
Benjamin Brooks and Songzi Du
Topics:
Industrial Organization