My research with collaborators digs deeper into the workings of specific War on Poverty programs, seeking evidence about ...

2025, Long-Term Asset Management, Ishita Sen, "The Market for Sharing Interest Rate Risk: Quantities and Asset Prices" ...

2025, Kristin Forbes, 40th Annual Conference on Macroeconomics "Tradeoffs and Sacrifice over Rate Cycles: Activity, Inflation ...

2025, Dean Corbae, 40th Annual Conference on Macroeconomics "Credit Scores and Inequality Across the Life Cycle" ...

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2025, Panel Discussion, 40th Annual Conference on Macroeconomics "The Steep Decline in Global Fertility: Causes and Consequences" ...

This paper examines how power lawyers shape judicial and economic outcomes by studying the “revolving door” between judges and lawyers in China’s judicial system—namely, former judges who quit the ...

Firm location decisions are a key managerial choice, usually optimized over factors like proximity to customers or suppliers. These decisions may also impose externalities on the environment, and on ...

The analysis of corporate governance begins with a central feature of modern capitalism—the separation of ownership and control in large corporations—first empirically documented by Berle and Means ...

Phone usage in the classroom has been linked to worsened academic outcomes. We present findings from a field experiment conducted at a large public university in partnership with an app marketed as a ...

We study the positive (not normative) effect of a permanent import tariff on trade deficits. We consider a two-period trade model with general preferences and technology. We first develop an ...

Nutritional disparities across socioeconomic groups contribute to health inequality in the U.S. This paper studies the role of heterogeneous consumer preferences in food choices and explores pricing ...