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Shifting Work Patterns with Generative AI

By Eleanor W. Dillon, Sonia Jaffe, Nicole Immorlica, and Christopher T. Stanton

òòò½Íø Review: Insights

We present evidence from a field experiment across 66 firms and 7,137 knowledge workers. Workers were randomly selected to access a generative AI tool integrated into applications they already used at work for email, meetings, and writing. In the secon...

Did Recent Inflation Reflect a Nonlinear Phillips Curve?

By Paul Beaudry, Chenyu Hou, and Franck Portier

òòò½Íø Review: Insights

To examine the potential role of a nonlinear Phillips curve in explaining recent US inflation, we combine evidence from both crosscity variation and aggregate time series data. A central challenge relates to how best to control for the potential confou...

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Authors may opt to publish joint papers in random order of coauthors with the symbol â“¡ between author names.

Monopolistic Data Dumping

By Kfir Eliaz and Ran Spiegler

òòò½Íø Journal: Microeconomics

A profit-maximizing monopolist curates a database for users seek- ing to learn a parameter. There are two user types: "Nowcasters" wish to learn the parameter's current value, while "forecasters" target its long-run value. Data storage involves a const...

A Laboratory Test of Flow Trading

By Daniel Friedman, Yilin Li, and Kristian López Vargas

òòò½Íø Journal: Microeconomics

Perceived shortcomings in the dominant asset market format, CDA, have provoked reform proposals including Flow, which features gradual trading. We report a laboratory experiment comparing formats in a simple single-asset private values environment. We ...

Labor Market Discrimination and the Racial Unemployment Gap: Can Monetary Policy Make a Difference?

By Isabel °ä²¹¾±°ùó and Avi Lipton

òòò½Íø Journal: Macroeconomics

Black workers experience higher, more volatile unemployment than white workers, a racial dis- parity unexplained by observables. A New Keynesian model with a frictional labor market, endogenous separations, and employer discrimination explains these out...

How Costly Are Cartels?

By Flavien Moreau and Ludovic Panon

òòò½Íø Journal: Macroeconomics

We study the cost of cartels in an oligopoly model with het- erogeneous firms, endogenous markups, and collusion. Cartels can amplify or dampen misallocation, by charging supracompetitive markups and reallocating demand towards non-colluding firms. Usi...

Disruption and Displacement in Health Care: Evidence from Nursing Home Closures

By Andrew Olenski

òòò½Íø Journal: Economic Policy

This paper examines the impacts of health care provider exits on patient outcomes and displacement. Leveraging data on the universe of long-stay nursing home patients, I estimate the mortality effects of 1,104 nursing home closures using a difference-in...

What Does Federal Oversight Do to Policing and Public Safety? Evidence from Seattle

By Romaine A. Campbell

òòò½Íø Journal: Economic Policy

This paper investigates how federal oversight not precipitated by a major scandal influences policing behavior and public safety. The high-profile events triggering such scandals can independently affect policing and crime, confounding estimates of over...

Externalities and the Taxation of Top Earners

By Henrik Kleven

òòò½Íø Journal: Economic Policy

This paper characterizes the optimal taxation of top earners in a world with externalities. It develops a reduced-form approach that allows for a flexible relationship between top earnings and the distribution of earnings capacities in the population. ...

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Luck of the Draw: The Causal Effect of Physicians on Birth Outcomes

By Christian Posso, Jorge Tamayo, Arlen Guarin, and Estefania Saravia

òòò½Íø Journal: Applied Economics

This paper studies whether more skilled physicians improve birth outcomes. We exploit a natural experiment in Colombia, where newly graduated physicians were randomly assigned to Local Health Centers (LHCs), to estimate the causal effect of being treate...

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òòò½Íø Journal: Economic Policy, May 2026

Vertical Integration and Cream Skimming of Profitable Referrals: The Case of Hospital-Owned Skilled Nursing Facilities

By David Cutler, Leemore Dafny, David C. Grabowski, Steven Lee, and Christopher Ody

òòò½Íø Journal: Economic Policy, May 2026

We examine whether vertical integration of hospitals and skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) could lessen competition by foreclosing rival SNFs' access to lucrative referrals. We find that it could: Among integrated providers, a 1 percent increase in SNF re...

Guaranteed Employment in Rural India: Intrahousehold Labor and Resource Allocation Consequences

By Jorge Luis ³Ò²¹°ù³¦Ã­²¹

òòò½Íø Journal: Economic Policy, May 2026

I investigate the intrahousehold labor and resource allocation consequences of an employment guarantee targeting rural households in India. The guarantee insures household earnings, replacing women as added workers and shutting down a motive for saving. D...

Integrating Out Natural Disaster Shocks

By Franziska Bremus and Malte Rieth

òòò½Íø Journal: Economic Policy, May 2026

We study the role of international financial integration in buffering natural disaster shocks, using a large sample of advanced and emerging economies. Natural disasters are largely unpredictable and unrelated to the state of financial integration. We doc...

Adjustable Product Attributes, Indirect Network Effects, and Subsidy Design: The Case of Electric Vehicles

By Kevin Remmy

òòò½Íø Journal: Economic Policy, May 2026

This paper develops a structural model of endogenous product attribute choice in the presence of indirect network effects to study electric vehicle (EV) subsidies. Using data on the German EV market, I find that a support scheme almost doubled EV sales bu...