A Matter of Time? Measuring Effects of Public Schooling Expansions on Families

By Chloe R. Gibbs, Jocelyn Wikle, and Riley Wilson

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

We leverage pronounced changes in the availability of public schooling for young children— through duration expansions to the kindergarten day—to better understand how an implicit childcare subsidy affects mothers and families. Exploiting full-day k...

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The Unintended Consequences of Academic Leniency

By A. Brooks Bowden, Viviana Rodriguez, and Zach Weingarten

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

Education is widely recognized as the primary driver of human capital accumulation. However, policies designed to promote educational attainment often overlook students’ endogenous responses. This paper provides empirical evidence of the causal impact...

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Housing supply skepticism

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October 06, 2025

Christopher Elmendorf discusses the views of the US public on the housing market.

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Entertainment technology and work behavior

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How did the rollout of broadcast television during the mid-twentieth century affect labor supply decisions in the United States?

Agent-Based Modeling in Economics and Finance: Past, Present, and Future

By Robert L. Axtell and J. Doyne Farmer

Journal of Economic Literature, March 2025

Agent-based modeling (ABM) is a novel computational methodology for representing the behavior of individuals in order to study social phenomena. Its use is rapidly growing in many fields. We review ABM in economics and finance and highlight how it can be ...

Organizing Time Exchanges: Lessons from Matching Markets

By Tommy Andersson, Ágnes Cseh, Lars Ehlers, and Albin Erlanson

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, February 2021

This paper considers time exchanges via a common platform (e.g., markets for exchanging time units, positions at education institutions, and tuition waivers). There are several problems associated with such markets, e.g., imbalanced outcomes, coordination...

The Optimal Taxation of Height: A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution

By N. Gregory Mankiw and Matthew Weinzierl

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, February 2010

Should the income tax include a credit for short taxpayers and a surcharge for tall ones? The standard utilitarian framework for tax analysis answers this question in the affirmative. Moreover, a plausible parameterization using data on height and wage...

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Improving Women's Mental Health during a Pandemic

By Michael Vlassopoulos, Abu Siddique, Tabassum Rahman, Debayan Pakrashi, Asad Islam, and Firoz Ahmed

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2024

This paper evaluates a randomized, over-the-phone counseling intervention aimed at mitigating the mental health impact of COVID-19 on a sample of 2,402 women across 357 villages in Bangladesh. We find that the provision of two hours of mental support plus...

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