My research with collaborators digs deeper into the workings of specific War on Poverty programs, seeking evidence about ...

2025, Long-Term Asset Management, Ishita Sen, "The Market for Sharing Interest Rate Risk: Quantities and Asset Prices" ...

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2025, Kristin Forbes, 40th Annual Conference on Macroeconomics "Tradeoffs and Sacrifice over Rate Cycles: Activity, Inflation ...

2025, Dean Corbae, 40th Annual Conference on Macroeconomics "Credit Scores and Inequality Across the Life Cycle" ...

We study the positive (not normative) effect of a permanent import tariff on trade deficits. We consider a two-period trade model with general preferences and technology. We first develop an ...

Phone usage in the classroom has been linked to worsened academic outcomes. We present findings from a field experiment conducted at a large public university in partnership with an app marketed as a ...

We examine how the political ideology of corporate leaders shapes cross-border firm networks. Exploiting changes in ideological alignment between U.S. firm CEOs and foreign governments around close ...

We study the post-World War II “Golden Age” of American corporate research from 1945 to 1980, using multiple indicators of corporate research activity. We use an ensemble learning approach to classify ...

Firm location decisions are a key managerial choice, usually optimized over factors like proximity to customers or suppliers. These decisions may also impose externalities on the environment, and on ...

Nutritional disparities across socioeconomic groups contribute to health inequality in the U.S. This paper studies the role of heterogeneous consumer preferences in food choices and explores pricing ...

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