The NBER has awarded six Robert Summers fellowships to enable economic statisticians from government agencies and international organizations to attend the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth ...

We examine the causal effect of health insurance on mortality using the universe of low-income adults, a dataset of 37 million individuals identified by linking the 2010 Census to administrative tax ...

Long-Term Care around the World documents and compares long-term care programs in 10 developed countries of varying sizes and ...

Darrick Hamilton and Barry Melancon. Hamilton will represent the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial ...

Darrick Hamilton and Barry Melancon. At its meeting on April 28, the NBER Board of Directors elected two new members: Darrick ...

Following a call for nominations in January, the NBER has appointed 63 new affiliates: 19 Research Associates and 44 Faculty Research Fellows. In addition, six Faculty Research Fellows have been ...

This award funds a project to study the history of displacement across American towns from 1850 to 1940. It does so by first using an innovative machine learning technology to create a comprehensive ...

We use a dynamic trade and reallocation model with downward nominal wage rigidities to quantitatively assess the economic consequences of recent U.S. tariff increases on imports from Mexico, Canada, ...

Despite growing public funding for religious schools through U.S. school choice programs, little is known about what they teach. We examine textbooks from public schools, religious private schools, ...

Legal claims are increasingly being considered as an alternative asset class, however, there appears to be a lack of a standard methodology for valuing litigation risk. This paper proposes a dynamic ...

We find that the price volatility of renewable assets is significantly greater than that of brown assets. Our causal estimates leverage the response of electricity and credit markets to US state-level ...

This paper explores the two-way relationship between international migration and political regime change, emphasizing the potential for a feedback loop: political shifts influence migration patterns, ...