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This paper shows how exposure to the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) during childhood affects women’s health outcomes in early-adulthood, as well as the health of their infants.

NEW in @nber.org by Janet Currie and Jessica Van Parys: nber.org/papers/w34464
November 17, 2025 at 5:41 PM
"This chapter explores the long-run implications of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) for economic growth and labor markets."

NEW in @nber.org by Pascual Restrepo: nber.org/papers/w34423
November 6, 2025 at 2:56 PM
We’re excited to introduce the Yale Department of Economics 2025-26 Job Market Candidates!

Look out for individual posts about their research interests and job market papers this week, and learn more about the candidates here: economics.yale.edu/phd-program/...
November 5, 2025 at 7:40 PM
"We study the role of information in Bertrand competition with differentiated goods and heterogeneous production costs."

NEW in AEJ: Microeconomics by Dirk Bergemann, Benjamin Brooks, and Stephen Morris: www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
October 29, 2025 at 1:31 PM
How do vertically integrated firms' pricing and product provision decisions change with upstream and downstream competition?

NEW in @nber.org by Charles Hodgson & Shilong Sun: nber.org/papers/w34390
October 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
"We provide new evidence on how felony non-carceral conviction and incarceration affect future criminal justice involvement."

NEW in Quarterly Journal of Economics by John Eric Humphries, Aurélie Ouss, Kamelia Stavreva, Megan T Stevenson, & Winnie van Dijk: academic.oup.com/qje/article/...
October 17, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Joel Mokyr’s intellectual journey to the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics began at Yale, where he was Ph.D. student in the early 1970s under the mentorship of the late William Parker, a path-breaking economic historian.

Read more in Yale News: news.yale.edu/2025/10/16/p...
October 16, 2025 at 6:56 PM
"We examine information versus hassle costs in the context of Medicaid prior authorization requirements for preschool antipsychotic prescribing."

NEW in @nber.org by Janet Currie & Kate Musen: nber.org/papers/w34369
October 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The Economics Department and Tobin Center for Economic Policy are hiring several Pre-Doctoral Fellows starting in Summer 2026.

Come join our vibrant program! Learn more and apply here: tobin.yale.edu/programs/pre...
October 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
NEW in the Journal of Political Economy: "Changes in Marital Sorting: Theory and Evidence from the United States"

By Pierre-André Chiappori, Monica Costa Dias, Costas Meghir, and Hanzhe Zhang: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
October 1, 2025 at 6:53 PM
NEW in @nber.org: "Drivers of Digital Payment Adoption: Lessons from Brazil, Costa Rica, and Mexico"

By David Argente, Paula Gonzalez Alvarez, Esteban Méndez, and Diana Van Patten: www.nber.org/papers/w34280
September 23, 2025 at 8:13 PM
"This paper revisits the relationship between international trade, trade policy, and development in light of the structural, policy, and geopolitical shifts that have transformed globalization over the past decade."

NEW in @nber.org by Goldberg & Ruta: www.nber.org/papers/w34283
September 22, 2025 at 7:33 PM
"We develop a method of solving rational expectations models with dispersed information and dynamic strategic complementarities."

NEW in The Review of Economic Studies by Zhen Huo & Naoki Takayama: academic.oup.com/restud/artic...
September 17, 2025 at 8:49 PM
"Using geographic discontinuities in the Norwegian annual net-wealth tax and third-party-reported data on savings, I find that wealth taxation causes households to save more."

NEW in The Review of Economic Studies by Marius Ring: academic.oup.com/restud/artic...
September 12, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Join us tomorrow (Sept. 10) at noon for the first Cowles Lunch Talk of the semester!

Featuring Dirk Bergemann on "Information Design in the Digital Economy:" cowles.yale.edu/events/cowle...
September 9, 2025 at 9:15 PM
"This paper proposes that test-optional policies are a response to social pressure on admission decisions."

NEW in the American Economic Review by Wouter Dessein, Alex Frankel, and Navin Kartik: www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
September 5, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Join us for the 6th Women in International Economics Conference, October 16-17, 2025 at Yale!

See the agenda below. More information here: cowles.yale.edu/events/2025/...
September 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
"This paper introduces a decomposition of welfare assessments for general dynamic stochastic economies with heterogeneous individuals."

NEW in Journal of Political Economy by Eduardo Dávila and Andreas Schaab: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
September 2, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Welcome to the Department Leah Boustan, Cody Cook, Janet Currie, Navin Kartik, Maria Kogelnik, Victoria Marone, Theofanis Papamichalis, Marius Ring, and Rohen Shah!
August 29, 2025 at 4:23 PM
"We examine whether large-scale information interventions can improve college application outcomes in a centralized admissions system."

NEW in @nber.org by Tomás Larroucau, Ignacio A. Rios, Anaïs Fabre, & Christopher Neilson nber.org/papers/w34164
August 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Former White House National Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi visited Yale's Tobin Center to discuss challenges and opportunities for business leaders, policymakers, & others in this moment of disruption in the clean energy space.

Watch the full interview here: tobin.yale.edu/news/250821/...
August 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
How much could an economy grow from improvements in women’s labor market opportunities?

The Global Gender Distortions Index (GGDI) links changes in gender gaps in the labor market to productivity growth.

NEW in @nber.org: nber.org/papers/w34142
August 21, 2025 at 1:53 PM
NEW Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper: "We show how to use randomized participation incentives to test and account for nonresponse bias in surveys."

By Deniz Dutz, Ingrid Huitfeldt, Santiago Lacouture, Magne Mogstad, Alexander Torgovitsky, & Winnie van Dijk: cowles.yale.edu/research/cfd...
August 18, 2025 at 2:51 PM
NEW Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper: "Selective Turnout, Voting Policy, and Partisan Bias: Evidence from Multi-Level Data"

By Steven Berry, Christian Cox, and Philip Haile: cowles.yale.edu/research/cfd...
August 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
"This paper studies the semiparametric estimation and inference of integral functionals on submanifolds, which arise naturally in a variety of econometric settings."

NEW Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper by Xiaohong Chen & Wayne Yuan Gao: cowles.yale.edu/research/cfd...
August 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM