In early April, following his Senate confirmation, Jay Bhattacharya, a Professor of Medicine at the Stanford Medical School, ...

We study the effects of social media political advertising by randomizing subsets of 36,906 Facebook users and 25,925 Instagram users to have political ads removed from their news feeds for six weeks ...

Using credit bureau data, we show that nearly half the increase in student debt since 2010 is due to deferred payments and the expansion of income-driven repayment (IDR) plans. These plans help ...

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 ...

We examine the labor market effects of AI chatbots using two large-scale adoption surveys (late 2023 and 2024) covering 11 exposed occupations (25,000 workers, 7,000 workplaces), linked to matched ...

We find that an unanticipated tightening of US monetary policy tends to raise US import prices. This empirical “spill-back” pattern differs from the predictions of typical open-economy macro models.

This volume refines and extends the economic history literature on economic inequality in the United States. Economic ...

Our primary empirical findings are that the age-friendliness of Korean jobs grew more slowly than in the US, and that older Koreans were not the main beneficiaries of these jobs. Both findings reflect ...

Growing AI readership, proxied by expected machine downloads, motivates firms to prepare filings that are friendlier to machine parsing and processing. Firms avoid words that are perceived as negative ...

Based on a survey questionnaire administered to 1478 R&D labs in the U.S. manufacturing sector in 1994, we find that firms typically protect the profits due to invention with a range of mechanisms, ...