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November 15, 2022

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Research Spotlight: ‘Advocacy Gap’ Helps Explain Black-White Differences in Career Recognition

August 1, 2022

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Research Spotlight: Children’s Early Skills Boost Parental Beliefs, Educational Investments, and Long-Run Outcomes

July 1, 2022

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Research Spotlight: The Great Gatsby Curve: Probing the Mechanisms Behind Inequality and Its Persistence

June 1, 2022

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Research Spotlight: Teachers’ Assessment of Noncognitive Skills Are Best Predictors of Outcomes in School

January 31, 2022

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Research Spotlight: Matching Data Across Decades, Researchers Show that Parents Transmit Cognitive Skills to Children

December 20, 2021

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Research Spotlight: Melding a Model and Data to Estimate the Impact of COVID Learning Loss

October 4, 2021

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Research Spotlight: Helping parents provide early childhood stimulation yields broad and lasting benefits, Jamaica study shows

September 2, 2021

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Research Spotlight: Lasting Benefits for Perry Preschool Participants, Siblings and Children Document Strong Returns to Early Childhood Intervention

April 27, 2021

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Research Spotlight: Lessons from Denmark about Inequality and Social Mobility

February 2, 2021

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Research Spotlight: When the Great Equalizer Shuts Down: Schools, Peers, and Parents in Pandemic Times

November 10, 2020

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Research Spotlight: Gender Inequality in COVID-19 Times: Evidence from UK Prolific Participants

October 13, 2020

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Research Spotlight: The Impact of the Coronavirus Lockdown on Mental Health: Evidence from the US

August 11, 2020

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Research Spotlight: Mentoring and Schooling Decisions: Causal Evidence

June 2, 2020

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Research Spotlight: An SEIR Infectious Disease Model with Testing and Conditional Quarantine

May 6, 2020

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Research Spotlight: Building Inter-Ethnic Cohesion in Schools: An Intervention on Perspective-Taking

February 11, 2020

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Research Spotlight: Predicting Consumer Default: A Deep Learning Approach

December 24, 2019

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Research Spotlight: Does Eviction Cause Poverty? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Cook County, IL

October 30, 2019

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Christopher Flinn on Data Availability

October 16, 2019

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John Eric Humphries on the Causal Impact of Evictions

October 8, 2019

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Research Spotlight: Paid Family Leave and Breastfeeding: Evidence from California

October 2, 2019

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Ariel Kalil on Parent-Child Interactions

September 10, 2019

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Research Spotlight: Girls, Boys, and High Achievers

September 4, 2019

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The University of Chicago Policy Forum: Colin Camerer

August 21, 2019

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The University of Chicago Policy Forum: Michael Woodford

July 31, 2019

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The University of Chicago Policy Forum: Itzhak Gilboa

July 10, 2019

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Dali Yang on the Restructuring of the Chinese State

July 9, 2019

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Research Spotlight: Changing Business Cycles: The Role of Women’s Employment

June 19, 2019

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Bertil Tungodden on Understanding Moral Motivation

June 11, 2019

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Research Spotlight: Intergenerational and Intragenerational Externalities of the Perry Preschool Project

May 22, 2019

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Robert Moffitt on the Optimal Design of Welfare Programs

May 14, 2019

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Research Spotlight: The Causal Effects of Adolescent School Bullying Victimisation on Later Life Outcomes

May 1, 2019

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Kegon Tan on the Transmission of Socioeconomic Status

April 9, 2019

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Research Spotlight: Inequality of Opportunity in Education: Accounting for the Contributions of Sibs, Schools and Sorting across East Africa

April 3, 2019

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Branko Milanovic on Global Inequality

March 12, 2019

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Research Spotlight: Genes, Education, and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study

February 27, 2019

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Damon Jones on Universal Basic Income

February 13, 2019

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Kjell Salvanes on the Mechanisms of Mobility

February 12, 2019

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Research Spotlight: Motherhood and the Gender Productivity Gap

January 9, 2019

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Gene Robinson on Reframing Nature vs. Nurture

January 8, 2019

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Research Spotlight: Women in Economics: Stalled Progress

December 19, 2018

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Kimberly Noble on Socioeconomic Disparities in Brain Development

December 4, 2018

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Research Spotlight: Parental Beliefs about Returns to Different Types of Investments in School Children

November 21, 2018

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Dana Suskind on Her Public Health Approach to Early Learning

November 6, 2018

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Research Spotlight: The Value of Health Insurance: A Household Job Search Approach

October 24, 2018

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Francesco Agostinelli on Skill Formation

October 2, 2018

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Research Spotlight: Publishing and Promotion in Economics: The Tyranny of the Top Five

September 26, 2018

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Robert Dugger on the Next Generation Industry

September 4, 2018

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Research Spotlight: Longer, More Optimistic, Lives: Historic Optimism and Life Expectancy in the United States

August 29, 2018

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Flavio Cunha on the Texas Policy Lab

August 16, 2018

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Working Paper Discussion: Occupational Licensing Reduces Racial and Gender Wage Gaps

August 7, 2018

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Research Spotlight: Cohort Effects in Children's Delay-of-Gratification

July 25, 2018

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Esfandiar Maasoumi on Using Econometrics and Economics to Study Inequality

July 3, 2018

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Research Spotlight: The Formation of Prosociality: Causal Evidence on the Role of Social Environment

June 20, 2018

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Rasmus Landersø on the Scandinavian Welfare State

June 5, 2018

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Research Spotlight: Government education expenditures, pre-primary education and school performance: A cross-country analysis

May 23, 2018

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Geoffrey Preidis on Early Life Undernutrition

May 9, 2018

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Angela Duckworth and Katy Milkman on Behavior Change

May 1, 2018

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Research Spotlight: The Relationship between Union Membership and Net Fiscal Impact

April 25, 2018

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Robert Pollak on the Economics of the Family

April 11, 2018

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Stefanie Schurer on the Economics of Human Development

April 3, 2018

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Research Spotlight: Intergenerational Health Mobility in the US

March 28, 2018

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Marie-Claire Arrieta on the Link Between Microbes and Asthma

March 14, 2018

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Erin Hanlon on the Effects of Sleep Loss

March 6, 2018

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Research Spotlight: Gender Representation in Economics Across Topics and Time: Evidence from the NBER Summer Institute

February 28, 2018

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Katherine Amato on the Evolutionary Origins of the Microbiome

February 14, 2018

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Peter Blair on the Importance of Mentorship

February 6, 2018

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Research Spotlight: Socio-Economic Status and Inequalities in Children’s IQ and Economic Preferences

January 31, 2018

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Stacy Lindau on Engineering Solutions to Injustice

January 17, 2018

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Erika Claud on Preterm Infant Health Outcomes

January 3, 2018

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Meghan Azad on Studying Chronic Diseases in Children

January 2, 2018

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Research Spotlight: Does Parents' Access to Family Planning Increase Children's Opportunities? Evidence from the War on Poverty and the Early Years of Title X

December 13, 2017

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Eric Chyn on Neighborhood Effects

December 5, 2017

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Research Spotlight: Credit Growth and the Financial Crisis: A New Narrative

November 29, 2017

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V. Joseph Hotz on Parental Investment in Children

November 15, 2017

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Miriam Gensowski on the Causes & Consequences of Inequality

November 7, 2017

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Research Spotlight: Occupational Licensing Reduces Racial and Gender Wage Gaps

November 1, 2017

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Jeffrey Smith on the Evaluation of Interventions

October 18, 2017

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Lawrence Blume on the Importance of Welfare Economics

October 4, 2017

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Joseph Kable on How People Make Decisions

October 3, 2017

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Research Spotlight: The First 2,000 Days and Child Skills: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment of Home Visiting

September 20, 2017

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Malte Sandner on Evaluating Policies for Disadvantaged Families

September 6, 2017

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Sara Jaffee on the Interplay Between Experience and Biology

September 5, 2017

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Research Spotlight: Making Friends in Violent Neighborhoods: Strategies among Elementary School Children

August 23, 2017

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Petra Todd on Evaluating Social Programs

August 9, 2017

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Richard V. Reeves on the Myth of Meritocracy

August 1, 2017

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Research Spotlight: Human Capital and Shocks: Evidence on Education, Health, and Nutrition

July 26, 2017

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Tim Kautz on Applying Economics to Social Issues

July 12, 2017

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Dirk Krueger on Merging Macroeconomics and Policy Reform

July 11, 2017

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Research Spotlight: Heterogeneous Peer Effects and Rank Concerns: Theory and Evidence

June 28, 2017

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Jere Behrman on Early Childhood Development in Developing Countries

June 14, 2017

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Dan Mroczek on Personality and Health

June 6, 2017

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Research Spotlight: Family Inequality: Diverging Patterns in Marriage, Cohabitation, and Childbearing

May 31, 2017

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William Revelle on the Structure of Personality

May 23, 2017

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Featured Research Project: Gender Differences in the Benefits of an Influential Early Childhood Program

May 17, 2017

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Turhan Canli on How People Process War

May 15, 2017

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Featured Research Project: Evaluation of the Reggio Approach to Early Education

May 3, 2017

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Dan Silverman on Economic Choices

May 2, 2017

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Research Spotlight: Sorting in Public School Districts Under the Boston Mechanism

April 19, 2017

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Rebecca Myerson on Health Policy Research

April 4, 2017

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Research Spotlight: Endogenous Driving Behavior in Veil of Darkness Tests for Racial Profiling

March 29, 2017

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Adele Diamond on Executive Functions and the Brain

March 15, 2017

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Pierre-André Chiappori on Investment in Human Capital

March 7, 2017

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Research Spotlight: Understanding Gender Differences in Leadership

March 1, 2017

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Joseph Ferrie on the Benefits of Using Historical Data

February 15, 2017

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Steven Durlauf on the Memberships Theory of Inequality

February 7, 2017

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Research Spotlight: The Life-cycle Benefits of an Influential Early Childhood Program

January 26, 2017

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Matthias Doepke on Why He Studies Family Economics

January 10, 2017

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Orla Doyle on Preparing for Life

January 3, 2017

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Research Spotlight: Capabilities and Skills

December 14, 2016

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Caterina Calsamiglia on Understanding School Choice

December 12, 2016

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Featured Research Project: The Life-cycle Benefits of an Influential Early Childhood Program

November 29, 2016

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Research Spotlight: The Scandinavian Fantasy

November 28, 2016

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Scott Kominers on Economics as Engineering

October 25, 2016

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Research Spotlight: Matching Systems for Refugee Resettlement

September 27, 2016

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Research Spotlight: Work Incentives of Medicaid Beneficiaries and the Role of Asset Testing

August 31, 2016

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Chris Taber on Human Capital Formation and Non-cognitive Skills

August 30, 2016

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Research Spotlight: Unfair Pay and Health

August 5, 2016

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Nathaniel Hendren on Market Frictions and Inequality

July 28, 2016

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Research Spotlight: Diffusion of Being Pivotal and Immoral Outcomes

June 28, 2016

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Research Spotlight: Student Loans and Repayment

May 31, 2016

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Research Stories

Research Spotlight: ‘Advocacy Gap’ Helps Explain Black-White Differences in Career Recognition

Research Spotlight: Children’s Early Skills Boost Parental Beliefs, Educational Investments, and Long-Run Outcomes

Research Spotlight: The Great Gatsby Curve: Probing the Mechanisms Behind Inequality and Its Persistence

Research Spotlight: Teachers’ Assessment of Noncognitive Skills Are Best Predictors of Outcomes in School

Research Spotlight: Matching Data Across Decades, Researchers Show that Parents Transmit Cognitive Skills to Children

Research Spotlight: Melding a Model and Data to Estimate the Impact of COVID Learning Loss

Research Spotlight: Helping parents provide early childhood stimulation yields broad and lasting benefits, Jamaica study shows

Research Spotlight: Lasting Benefits for Perry Preschool Participants, Siblings and Children Document Strong Returns to Early Childhood Intervention

Research Spotlight: Lessons from Denmark about Inequality and Social Mobility

Research Spotlight: When the Great Equalizer Shuts Down: Schools, Peers, and Parents in Pandemic Times

Research Spotlight: Gender Inequality in COVID-19 Times: Evidence from UK Prolific Participants

Research Spotlight: The Impact of the Coronavirus Lockdown on Mental Health: Evidence from the US

Research Spotlight: Mentoring and Schooling Decisions: Causal Evidence

Research Spotlight: An SEIR Infectious Disease Model with Testing and Conditional Quarantine

Salvador Navarro on Applied Econometrics

COVID-19 Research and Information from HCEO Members

Ismael Mourifié on Changes in Economic Theory

Research Spotlight: Building Inter-Ethnic Cohesion in Schools: An Intervention on Perspective-Taking

Research Spotlight: Predicting Consumer Default: A Deep Learning Approach

Research Spotlight: Does Eviction Cause Poverty? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Cook County, IL

Christopher Flinn on Data Availability

John Eric Humphries on the Causal Impact of Evictions

Research Spotlight: Paid Family Leave and Breastfeeding: Evidence from California

Ariel Kalil on Parent-Child Interactions

Research Spotlight: Girls, Boys, and High Achievers

The University of Chicago Policy Forum: Colin Camerer

The University of Chicago Policy Forum: Michael Woodford

The University of Chicago Policy Forum: Itzhak Gilboa

Dali Yang on the Restructuring of the Chinese State

Research Spotlight: Changing Business Cycles: The Role of Women’s Employment

Bertil Tungodden on Understanding Moral Motivation

Research Spotlight: Intergenerational and Intragenerational Externalities of the Perry Preschool Project

Robert Moffitt on the Optimal Design of Welfare Programs

Research Spotlight: The Causal Effects of Adolescent School Bullying Victimisation on Later Life Outcomes

Kegon Tan on the Transmission of Socioeconomic Status

Research Spotlight: Inequality of Opportunity in Education: Accounting for the Contributions of Sibs, Schools and Sorting across East Africa

Branko Milanovic on Global Inequality

Research Spotlight: Genes, Education, and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study

Damon Jones on Universal Basic Income

Kjell Salvanes on the Mechanisms of Mobility

Research Spotlight: Motherhood and the Gender Productivity Gap

Gene Robinson on Reframing Nature vs. Nurture

Research Spotlight: Women in Economics: Stalled Progress

Kimberly Noble on Socioeconomic Disparities in Brain Development

Research Spotlight: Parental Beliefs about Returns to Different Types of Investments in School Children

Dana Suskind on Her Public Health Approach to Early Learning

Research Spotlight: The Value of Health Insurance: A Household Job Search Approach

Francesco Agostinelli on Skill Formation

Research Spotlight: Publishing and Promotion in Economics: The Tyranny of the Top Five

Robert Dugger on the Next Generation Industry

Research Spotlight: Longer, More Optimistic, Lives: Historic Optimism and Life Expectancy in the United States

Flavio Cunha on the Texas Policy Lab

Working Paper Discussion: Occupational Licensing Reduces Racial and Gender Wage Gaps

Research Spotlight: Cohort Effects in Children's Delay-of-Gratification

Esfandiar Maasoumi on Using Econometrics and Economics to Study Inequality

Research Spotlight: The Formation of Prosociality: Causal Evidence on the Role of Social Environment

Rasmus Landersø on the Scandinavian Welfare State

Research Spotlight: Government education expenditures, pre-primary education and school performance: A cross-country analysis

Geoffrey Preidis on Early Life Undernutrition

Angela Duckworth and Katy Milkman on Behavior Change

Research Spotlight: The Relationship between Union Membership and Net Fiscal Impact

Robert Pollak on the Economics of the Family

Stefanie Schurer on the Economics of Human Development

Research Spotlight: Intergenerational Health Mobility in the US

Marie-Claire Arrieta on the Link Between Microbes and Asthma

Erin Hanlon on the Effects of Sleep Loss

Research Spotlight: Gender Representation in Economics Across Topics and Time: Evidence from the NBER Summer Institute

Katherine Amato on the Evolutionary Origins of the Microbiome

Peter Blair on the Importance of Mentorship

Research Spotlight: Socio-Economic Status and Inequalities in Children’s IQ and Economic Preferences

Stacy Lindau on Engineering Solutions to Injustice

Erika Claud on Preterm Infant Health Outcomes

Meghan Azad on Studying Chronic Diseases in Children

Research Spotlight: Does Parents' Access to Family Planning Increase Children's Opportunities? Evidence from the War on Poverty and the Early Years of Title X

Eric Chyn on Neighborhood Effects