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Where Are the Streets of Gold, and Why? A New Approach to Cross-Country Analysis and an Application to Immigrant Assimilation

By Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan

òòò½Íø Papers and Proceedings, May 2026

Many big questions in social sciences concern cross-country differences, yet credible answers are difficult to establish. This lecture proposes a framework that uses cross-country analysis to narrow plausible mechanisms, followed by targeted causal studie...

The Declining Local Bias of Entrepreneurship in the United States

By Innessa Colaiacovo, Margaret Dalton, Sari Pekkala Kerr, and William R. Kerr

òòò½Íø Papers and Proceedings, May 2026

Multiple studies document a local bias of entrepreneurship (LBE) in recent decades, where self-employed entrepreneurs are systematically more likely than wage workers to operate in their region of birth. This paper documents an important new fact: The LBE...

Defining Households That Are Underserved in Digital Payment Services

By Claire Greene, Fumiko Hayashi, Alicia Lloro, Oz Shy, Joanna Stavins, and Ying Lei Toh

òòò½Íø Papers and Proceedings, May 2026

US households that lack digital means of making and receiving payments cannot participate fully in an increasingly digitized economy. Assessing the scope of this problem and addressing it requires a definition of households that are underserved in digital...

Assessing Information: The Content of Asynchronous Communication in Hybrid Work

By Kyle Schirmann, Miguel Espinosa, Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury, Tarun Khanna, and Christos A. Makridis

òòò½Íø Papers and Proceedings, May 2026

Organizations are often viewed as information processors, and an efficient, robust information architecture can be a source of competitive advantage. However, measuring the content and flow of information is challenging. We describe three metrics for capt...