New study finds eldercare homes acquired by private equity companies cut staff, raise prices, and are 50% more likely to sedate patients instead of applying behavioral therapy

Does Private Equity Investment in Healthcare Benefit Patients? Evidence from Nursing Homes

The Impact of Chief Diversity Officers on Diverse Faculty Hiring

How to Talk When a Machine Is Listening: Corporate Disclosure in the Age of AI

Civil Liberties in Times of Crisis

Does Machine Translation Affect International Trade?

Study: 43% white Harvard students are legacy, athletes, staff/donor relatives

No evidence that urban protests reignited COVID-19 case growth

Can Negative Supply Shocks Cause Demand Shortages?

Longer unemployment insurance duration positively affects health for female workers and their children

Police caused 900 excess homicides and almost 34,000 excess felonies: A study found that in 5 cities that had both viral incidents of police-involved deaths of Black people and subsequent state and federal investigations, police dramatically withdrew even as 911 calls stayed constant.

How venture capital follows the economy down and curtails innovation

Can investors time their exposure to private equity?

Stagnation and Scientific Incentives

Children of immigrants have higher rates of upward mobility than US-born

The Effects of Prize Structures on Innovative Performance

White police officers use force 60% more than Black officers; white officers are 5x as likely to use gun force in predominantly Black neighborhoods; Black/Hispanic residents more likely to be shot by police

“no evidence” that tax incentives given to companies increased economic growth

The Private and External Costs of Germany's Nuclear Phase-Out

Teacher Effects on Student Achievement and Height: A Cautionary Tale

US air quality dropped during Trump presidency after years of improvement, leading to thousands of premature deaths

National Bureau of Economic Research: More than 40% of white Harvard admits are “ALDC”: athletes, legacy, Dean’s interest (donors' kids), or children of faculty.

The United States could have prevented about 16,000 deaths if all states had expanded Medicaid, new study finds

Germany’s first-time introduction of the nation-wide minimum wage [...] pushed up wages without lowering employment [and] lead to reallocation of workers from smaller…

The Long-Run Impacts of a Universal Child Care Program (2015)

Optimal Taxation with Rent-Seeking

A study examines the association between television ownership and coital frequency using data from 4 million individuals in national household surveys in 80 countries

When It Comes to Entrepreneurs, Youth Isn't Everything

When It Rains It Pours: The Long-run Economic Impacts of Salt Iodization in the United States

Evidence of regulatory capture of patent examiners

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