Projects

This list is continually evolving, but current projects include:

Mike Aguilar:

  • Markets dashboard

Peter Arcidiacono:

  • Bias in covering the news: What gets categorized as fake news across the political spectrum?
  • Race and the media: How major newspapers report race of the victim and race of the perpetrator

Bocar Ba:

  • Evaluating police alternatives
  • Social movement and corporate opportunities

Jason Baron:

  • The causal effects of school phone bans on student outcomes

Charlie Becker:

  • Assessing the impact of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on its labor and real estate markets
  • Does liberalization in a neighboring country reduce isolation in extremely closed settings? Assessing the effect of Uzbekistan's trade liberalization on economic activity in Turkmenistan's border crossings
  • Regional economic development of Kyrgyzstan, 1992-2022: A satellite night light assessment

Craig Burnside:

  • A downside risk puzzle

Emily Cuddy:

  • Regulatory incentives and industry capture: The case of the FDA
  • The long-run effects of psychiatric hospital closures

Jeff DeSimone:

  • Behavioral & health effects of the minimum legal drinking age: Regression discontinuity analysis
  • Interrelationships between gun policy and prevalence, mass and school shootings, and gun-related deaths, injuries, and crime

Michael Dinerstein:

  • Relying on unregulated firms to achieve public health goals: Evidence from pharmacies in Kenya

Arkadev Ghosh:

  • The melting pot: Industrialization and integration in America

Alessandra González:

  • Economics of gender in global contexts

Gregor Jarosch:

  • Wage fixing in the academic job market for economists

Grace Kim:

  • A comparative analysis of experiences and outcomes for immigrant vs. native-born entrepreneurs in the U.S.

Rachel Kranton:

  • COVID-19: productivity and mental health (with Duncan Thomas)
  • The effect of economic settings on social perceptions: Experimental investigations
  • Rise to the top: an economic experiment on income reallocation

Steve Medema:

  • Barbarians at the gates: The evolving place of the Coase Theorem in legal analysis
  • Mr. Smith goes to Washington: Invocations of Adam Smith in the U.S. Congress

Michael Pollman:

  • Weighted difference-in-differences using text embeddings

Jimmy Roberts:

  • Detecting and preventing Medicare fraud

Curt Taylor:

  • Optimal dynamic incentives with an application to test design
  • Protecting content owners from AI training attacks

Duncan Thomas:

  • Immediate and longer-term effects of large scale natural disasters

Pengpeng Xiao:

  • Gender gaps in the labor market and within the family
  • Spatial analyses with cellphone pings data
  • Structural models of job search