(Forthcoming Article) - Deep learning provides powerful methods to impute structured information from large-scale, unstructured text and image datasets. For example, economists might wish to detect th...

Firefighters and police in Rondônia battle fires intensified by both the climate crisis and a criminal assault on the rainforest

Frederick W. Bell, The Pope and the Price of Fish, The American Economic Review, Vol. 58, No. 5 (Dec., 1968), pp. 1346-1350

This Quick Start guide aims to help econ lovers easily join Bluesky’s growing economics community. The Bluesky User FAQ covers generic basics, like how to start an account. This guide orients you to e...

(Forthcoming Article) - We study regressions with multiple treatments and a set of controls that is flexible enough to purge omitted variable bias. We show that these regressions generally fail to est...

Though social scientists have long questioned how religion affects economic growth, a lack of accessible data hindered their efforts. Recently, advances in computing, novel econometric techniques, and the availability of new data have enabled researchers to test how religion has influenced growth in rich and poor countries, both historically and in the present. This column argues that religion is a ubiquitous social phenomena that can spur or impair economic growth by affecting four elements of the macroeconomic production function – physical capital, human capital, population/labour, and total factor productivity.