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The Highest Exam: How the Gaokao Shapes China by Ruixue Jia and Hongbin Li

By Ofer Malamud

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Disemployment Effects of Unemployment Insurance: A Meta-analysis

By Jonathan P. Cohen and Peter Ganong

American Economic Review: Insights, March 2026

We systematically review studies of how unemployment benefits affect unemployment duration. Statistically significant findings are eight times more likely to be published. Correcting for publication bias cuts the average elasticity by a third. Meta-analys...

Star Wars: The Empirics Strike Back

By Abel Brodeur, Mathias Lé, Marc Sangnier, and Yanos Zylberberg

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2016

Using 50,000 tests published in the AER, JPE, and QJE, we identify a residual in the distribution of tests that cannot be explained solely by journals favoring rejection of the null hypothesis. We observe a two-humped camel shap...

Central Bank Digital Currency and Monetary Architecture

By Dirk Niepelt

Journal of Economic Literature

We provide a guide to the macroeconomic literature on retail central bank digital currency (CBDC), organizing the discussion around a CBDC-irrelevance result. We identify both fundamental and policy-related sources of relevance, or departures from neutral...

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