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From Access to Achievement: The Primary School-Age Impacts of an At-Scale Preschool Construction Program in Highly Deprived Communities

By Marina Bassi, Bruno Besbas, Lelys Dinarte-Diaz, Saravana Ravindran, and Ana Reynoso

蝌蚪网 Journal: Applied Economics

We evaluate a large-scale public preschool construction program in deprived rural communities in Mozambique using a randomized control trial. The program increased preschool enrollment from 2% to 75%, improved primary school enrollment and progression, ...

Taxation and Entrepreneurship in the United States

By Hans A. Holter, Serhiy Stepanchuk, and Yicheng Wang

蝌蚪网 Journal: Macroeconomics

This paper studies the effects of income taxation on entrepreneurship, empirically and in a structural macro model with entrepreneurial choice. Combining state-level tax data with household and firm data we document that higher and more progressive ta...

Who Gets a Family? The Consequences of Family and Congregate Care Allocation for Child Outcomes

By Cameron Taylor

蝌蚪网 Journal: Applied Economics

Hundreds of thousands of children grow up in the US foster care system every year and are at high risk of experiencing negative outcomes such as incarceration and homelessness. This paper documents how the placement of foster children into families rat...

Detection of Collusive Networks in Multistage Auctions

By Bruno 叠补谤谩苍别办, Leon Musolff, and 痴铆迟臎锄蝉濒补惫 Titl

蝌蚪网 Journal: Applied Economics

We develop a method for detecting cartels in multistage auctions. Our approach allows firms to act collusively against cartel members yet competitively otherwise. In these auctions, bidders submit initial bids and can later revise them downward. As init...

Understanding liquidity traps

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Lessons from Roosevelt's monetary policy changes and the end of the Great Depression.

Perils of the Paperwork: The Impact of Information and Application Assistance on Social Benefit Take-Up in India

By Sarika Gupta

蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy

Governments worldwide administer social programs for vulnerable groups, yet many eligible citizens fail to benefit. This paper studies barriers to take-up of an unconditional cash transfer program for poor women in Delhi, India, where only one-third of...

On-Demand Assistance: Experimental Evidence from Indonesia

By Rema Hanna, Benjamin A. Olken, Sudarno Sumarto, Achmad Maulana, Vivi Alatas, and Elan Satriawan

蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy

Given labor informality in developing countries, addressing employment shocks is challenging. We study Indonesia鈥檚 new approach for on-demand online applications for temporary cash assistance and online job training. Through 20 lotteries over two year...

Trade Protection Along Supply Chains

By Chad P. Bown, Paola Conconi, Aksel Erbahar, and Lorenzo Trimarchi

蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy

We combine detailed information on US temporary trade barriers during 1989-2020 with input-output data to study the effects of trade protection along supply chains. We focus on measures imposed against China, which has been the main target of trade protec...

Call for Papers: 2026 Fintech and Financial Institutions Research Conference

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December 11, 2025

The submission deadline is December 31, 2025.

Liquidity Constraints and the Value of Insurance

By Keith M. Ericson and Justin Sydnor

蝌蚪网 Journal: Microeconomics

Insurance moves resources across both time and states. We study the consumptionsmoothing benefits of insurance under liquidity constraints in a model where contracts span multiple consumption periods. The normative benchmarks for insurance demand under...

Failures of Contingent Reasoning in Annuitization Decisions

By Erzo F.P. Luttmer, Priscila De Oliveira, and Dmitry Taubinsky

蝌蚪网 Journal: Microeconomics

This paper studies psychological biases in take-up of annuities, using an incentivized experiment with a probability-based sample (N = 3,038). Choosing an annuity was payoff-maximizing in the experiment at all prices, but take-up was incomplete and pri...

The Missing Loan-to-Value Cycle

By Manuel Adelino, W. Ben McCartney, and Antoinette Schoar

蝌蚪网 Review: Insights

We show that the equilibrium loan-to-value (LTV) distribution in the US mortgage market has been remarkably stable over the last quarter century, both in aggregate and region-by-region, despite large, cross-sectionally heterogeneous house price cycles....

Technological spillovers

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November 04, 2025

Shawn Kantor and Alexander Whalley discuss the long-term effects of public R&D investment made during the Cold War鈥揺ra space race.

Prioritizing Benefit? How Low-Income Patients Respond to Prescription Cost-Sharing

By Christopher Hollrah

蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy

This paper measures how cost-sharing impacts older low-income patients, exploiting a disconti-nuity in eligibility for a prescription drug subsidy for those who lose access to the Medicaid-linked program. Higher drug prices resulting from subsidy loss lea...

Sequential Protest Formation

By Benjamin Matta

蝌蚪网 Journal: Microeconomics

People participate in protests even though it is costly, benefits are not exclusive to participants, and each individual is unlikely to be pivotal. Building on these characteristics, I propose a sequential model of protest formation where opportunities t...

Register Now for Wednesday's Live Workshop about Navigating Authorship

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December 12, 2025

View the 蝌蚪网 Member Announcement from December 15th, 2025.

What is Newsworthy? Theory and Evidence

By Luis Armona, Matthew Gentzkow, Emir Kamenica, and Jesse M. Shapiro

蝌蚪网 Review: Insights

We introduce a model in which a benevolent news outlet decides whether to report the realization of a state to a consumer, who pays a cost to receive it. A simple statistical rule, called a proper scoring rule, describes when the outlet should be more ...