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 ...

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

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

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

Using 472 FOMC meetings (1969–2019) and the exogenous rotation of voting rights among Reserve Bank presidents, we identify meetings where local economic conditions in voting districts significantly ...

Taking into account the recessionary effect of tariffs dramatically brings down the optimal unilateral tariff level derived in standard trade theory.

We study sovereign external debt crises over the past 200 years, with a focus on creditor losses, or “haircuts”. Our sample covers 327 sovereign debt restructurings with external private creditors ...

In such cases, statistical inference is complicated by the interdependence of economic outcomes across locations. A common approach to account for this dependence is to cluster standard errors based ...

A classic result in trade theory is that it is socially optimal to set the tariff on a good equal to the inverse of the elasticity of its foreign supply. However, this result is based on the ...

Child maltreatment is a major public health concern in the United States. Maltreatment is associated with a range of poor health, developmental, and economic outcomes for child victims. In this study, ...

Recent policy proposals seek to regulate out-of-network hospital prices. We study how such regulation affects equilibrium prices, network formation, and hospital exit. We estimate a structural model ...

This paper studies the use of mobile crisis response teams—a non-uniformed pair consisting of a mental health worker and a medic—as a component of emergency response to 911 calls. We provide the first ...