NBER affiliates George Borjas, Kim Ruhl, and Pierre Yared have taken positions at the Council of Economic Advisers. Borjas is serving as a Senior Economist, Ruhl as a Member, and Yared as Vice Chair ...

We examine the causal effect of health insurance on mortality using the universe of low-income adults, a dataset of 37 million individuals identified by linking the 2010 Census to administrative tax ...

The NBER has awarded six Robert Summers fellowships to enable economic statisticians from government agencies and international organizations to attend the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth ...

Following a call for nominations in January, the NBER has appointed 63 new affiliates: 19 Research Associates and 44 Faculty Research Fellows. In addition, six Faculty Research Fellows have been ...

This paper explores the two-way relationship between international migration and political regime change, emphasizing the potential for a feedback loop: political shifts influence migration patterns, ...

Despite growing public funding for religious schools through U.S. school choice programs, little is known about what they teach. We examine textbooks from public schools, religious private schools, ...

We use a dynamic trade and reallocation model with downward nominal wage rigidities to quantitatively assess the economic consequences of recent U.S. tariff increases on imports from Mexico, Canada, ...

Legal claims are increasingly being considered as an alternative asset class, however, there appears to be a lack of a standard methodology for valuing litigation risk. This paper proposes a dynamic ...

Using 472 FOMC meetings (1969–2019) and the exogenous rotation of voting rights among Reserve Bank presidents, we identify meetings where local economic conditions in voting districts significantly ...

We find that the price volatility of renewable assets is significantly greater than that of brown assets. Our causal estimates leverage the response of electricity and credit markets to US state-level ...

Child maltreatment is a major public health concern in the United States. Maltreatment is associated with a range of poor health, developmental, and economic outcomes for child victims. In this study, ...

A classic result in trade theory is that it is socially optimal to set the tariff on a good equal to the inverse of the elasticity of its foreign supply. However, this result is based on the ...