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Friendship Networks and Political Opinions

By Yann Algan, Nicolò Dalvit, Quoc-Anh Do, Alexis Le Chapelain, and Yves Zenou

American Economic Review, June 2026

We examine how social interactions and friendships shape students' political opinions in a natural experiment at Sciences Po, a leading French university specializing in social and political sciences. The quasi-random assignment of students into short-ter...

Difference-in-Differences Designs: A Practitioner's Guide

By Andrew Baker, Brantly Callaway, Scott Cunningham, Andrew Goodman-Bacon, and Pedro H. C. Sant'Anna

Journal of Economic Literature, June 2026

Difference-in-differences (DiD) is arguably the most popular quasi-experimental research design. Its canonical form, with two groups and two periods, is well understood. However, empirical practices can be ad hoc when researchers go beyond that simple cas...

The Theory of Financial Stability Meets Reality: A Unifying Framework for Bank Regulation and Accounting Discretion

By Nina Boyarchenko, Kinda Hachem, and Anya Kleymenova

Journal of Economic Literature, June 2026

A large literature at the intersection of economics and finance offers prescriptions for regulating banks to increase financial stability. This literature abstracts from the discretion that accounting standards give banks over financial reporting, creatin...

Women's Power in the Household

By Seema Jayachandran and Alessandra Voena

Journal of Economic Literature, June 2026

We examine women's household power in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), synthesizing theoretical frameworks and empirical evidence on its measurement, determinants, and consequences. We define women's household power as their influence over househ...