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2024: The role of human capital for AI adoption: Evidence from French firms

Flavio Calvino, Chiara Criscuolo, Luca Fontanelli, Lionel Nesta and Elena Verdolini

2024: New venture creation: Innovativeness, speed-to-breakeven and revenue tradeoffs

Saul Estrin, Andrea Herrmann, Moren Levesque, Tomasz Mickiewicz and Mark Sanders

2024: Quantitative urban economics

Stephen Redding

2024: Assessing the costs of balancing college and work activities: The gig economy meets online education

Esteban M. Aucejo, Spencer Perry and Basit Zafar

2024: Income, wealth and environmental inequality in the United States

Jonathan Colmer, Suvy Qin, John Voorheis and Reed Walker

2024: Empirical welfare analysis with hedonic budget constraints

Debopam Bhattacharya, Ekaterina Oparina and Qianya Xu

2024: Transitional costs and the decline in coal: Worker-level evidence

Jonathan Colmer, Eleanor Krause, Eva Lyubich and John Voorheis

2024: The Easterlin paradox at 50

Ekaterina Oparina, Andrew Clark and Richard Layard

2024: Spatial economics

Stephen Redding

2024: Crime and education

Stephen Machin and Matteo Sandi

2024: Job displacement, remarriage and marital sorting

Hanno Foerster, Tim Obermeier and Bastian Schulz

2024: Crime and the labor market

Randi Hjalmarsson, Stephen Machin and Paolo Pinotti

2024: Political competition and the strategic adoption of free trade agreements

Emanuel Ornelas

2024: Multipliers from a major public sector relocation: The BBC moves to Salford

Max Nathan, Henry Overman, Capucine Riom and Maria Sanchez-Vidal

2024: A political disconnect? Evidence from voting on EU trade agreements

Paola Conconi, Florin Cucu, Federico Gallina and Mattia Nordotto

2024: The new wave? The role of human capital and STEM skills in technology adoption in the UK

Mirko Draca, Max Nathan, Viet Nguyen-Tien, Juliana Oliveira-Cunha, Anna Rosso and Anna Valero

2024: Why do flexible work arrangements exist?

Nikhil Datta

2024: Is distance from innovation a barrier to the adoption of artificial intelligence

James Bessen, Iain Cockburn and Jennifer Hunt

2024: Capital-skill complementarity in firms and in the aggregate economy

Giuseppe Berlingieri, Filippo Boeri, Danial Lashkari and Jonathan Vogel

2024: Not incentivized yet efficient: Working from home in the public sector

Alessandra Fenizia and Tom Kirchmaier

2024: Can firm subsidies spread growth?

Elodie Andrieu and John Morrow

2024: Highway traffic in Britain: The effect of road capacity changes

Miquel-Àngel Garcia López, Luz Yadira Gómez-Hernández and Rosa Sanchis-Guarner

2024: The distributional consequences of trade: Evidence from the Grain Invasion

Stephan Heblich, Stephen Redding and Yanos Zylberberg

2024: Immigrant downgrading: New evidence from UK panel data

Brian Bell and Philip Johnson

2024: Valuing consumption services as technology transforms accessibility: Evidence from Beijing

Ying Chen, Paul Cheshire, Xiangqing Wang and You-Sin Wang

2024: Trade and the end of antiquity

Johannes Boehm and Thomas Chaney

2024: Learning about women's competence: The dynamic response of political parties to gender quotas in South Korea

Jay Euijung Lee and Martina Zanella

2024: Asymmetric pass-through and competition

Christos Genakos, Blair Yuan Lyu and Mario Pagliero

2024: Evaluating the impact of export finance support on firm-level export performance: Evidence from Pakistan

Fabrice Defever, Alejandro Riano and Gonzalo Varela

2024: Elite universities and the intergenerational transmission of human and social capital

Andrés Barrios Fernández, Christopher Neilson and Seth Zimmerman

2024: Brexit and investment

Agnes Norris Keiller

2024: Paternity leave and child development

Lidia Farre, Libertad Gonzalez, Claudia Hupkau and Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela

2024: Housing-consumption channel of mortgage demand

Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt, Nikodem Szumilo and Jagdish Tripathy

2024: When trade drives markup divergence: An application to auto markets

Agnes Norris Keiller, Tim Obermeier, Andreas Teichgraeber and John van Reenen

2024: Online versus in-person services: Effects on patients and providers

Amanda Dahlstrand, Nestor Le Nestour and Guy Michaels

2024: Firm heterogeneity and imperfect competition in global production networks

Hanwei Huang, Kalina Manova, Oscar Perello and Frank Pisch

2024: Avenging the tenants: Regulating the middle man's rents

Jan David Bakker and Nikhil Datta

2024: Production function estimation using subjective expectations data

Agnes Norris Keiller, John van Reenen and Aureo de Paula

2024: Transition to green technology along the supply chain

Philippe Aghion, Lint Barrage, David Hemous and Ernest Liu

2024: Regional and aggregate economic consequences of environmental policy

Italo Colantone, Gianmarco Ottaviano and Tom Schmitz

2024: An engine of (pay) growth? Productivity and wages in the UK auto industry

Agnes Norris Keiller, Tim Obermeier, Andreas Teichgraeber and John van Reenen

2024: The wage of temporary agency workers

Antonin Bergeaud, Pierre Cahuc, Clement Malgouyres, Sara Signorelli and Thomas Zuber

2024: Identifying agglomeration shadows: Long-run evidence from ancient ports

Richard Hornbeck, Guy Michaels and Ferdinand Rauch

2024: Local monopsony power

Nikhil Datta

2024: Education, gender and family formation

Hanna Virtanen, Mikko Silliman, Tiina Kuuppelomaki and Kristiina Huttunen

2024: It takes (more than) a moment: Estimating trade flows with superstar exporters

Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Matteo Bugamelli, Emanuele Forlani and Gianmarco Ottaviano

2024: Trade, skills and productivity

Giordano Mion and Joana Silva

2024: Gender, careers and peers' gender mix

Elena Ashtari Tafti, Mimosa Distefano and Tetyana Surovtseva

2024: Disaster management

Agnes Norris Keiller and John van Reenen

2024: Unsettled: Job insecurity reduces home-ownership

Andrew Clark, Conchita D'Ambrosio and Anthony Lepinteur

2024: Property rights and innovation dynamism: The role of women inventors

Ruveyda Nur Gozen

2024: Do female-owned employment agencies mitigate discrimination and expand opportunity for women?

Jennifer Hunt and Carolyn Moehling

2024: Land use regulation, homeownership and wealth inequality

Christian Hilber and Tracy M. Turner

2024: Putting quantitative models to the test: An application to Trump's trade war

Rodrigo Adao, Arnaud Costinot and Dave Donaldson

2024: Gendered change: 150 years of transformation in US hours

L. Rachel Ngai, Claudia Olivetti and Barbara Petrongolo

2024: Government contracting and living wages > minimum wages

Nikhil Datta and Stephen Machin

2024: Tax simplicity or simplicity of evasion? Evidence from self-employment taxes in France

Philippe Aghion, Maxime Gravoueille, Matthieu Lequien and Stefanie Stantcheva

2024: Five facts about MPCs: Evidence from a randomized experiment

Johannes Boehm, Etienne Fize and Xavier Jaravel

2024: Accounting for the evolution of China's production and trade patterns

Hanwei Huang, Jiandong Ju and Vivian Yue

2024: Business groups, strategic acquisitions and innovation

Carlo Altomonte, Nevine El-Mallakh and Tommaso Sonno

2024: Teacher value-added and gender gaps in educational outcomes

Andres Barrios-Fernández and Marc Riudavets-Barcons

2024: Mark-ups in the digital era

Sara Calligaris, Chiara Criscuolo and Luca Marcolin

2024: The organizational economics of school chains

Lorenzo Neri, Elizabetta Pasini and Olmo Silva

2024: Leaving the global playing field through optimal non-discriminatory corporate taxes and subsidies

Antonella Nocco, Gianmarco Ottaviano, Matteo Salto and Atsushi Tadokoro

2024: Global warming cools voters down: How climate concerns affect policy preferences

Maria Cotofan, Karlygash Kuralbayeva and Konstantinos Matakos

2024: Why delay? Understanding the construction lag, aka the build out rate

Michael Ball, Paul Cheshire, Christian Hilber and Xiaolun Yu

2024: Fantastic beasts and where to find them

Gianmarco Ottaviano and Davide Suverato

2024: The economic dynamics of city structure: Evidence from Hiroshima's recovery

Kohei Takeda and Atsushi Yamagishi

2024: Beyond the enrolment gap: Financial barriers and high-achieving, low-income students' persistence in higher education

Gustave Kenedi

2024: Neighborhood effects: Evidence from wartime destruction in London

Stephen Redding and Daniel M. Sturm

2024: Under pressure: Victim withdrawal and police officer workload

Tom Kirchmaier and Ekaterina Oparina

2024: Are we yet sick of new technologies? The unequal health effects of digitalization

Melanie Arntz, Sebastian Findeisen, Stephan Maurer and Oliver Schlenker

2024: Immigration and political realignment

Javad Shamsi

2024: Talking therapy: Impacts of a nationwide mental health service in England

Ekaterina Oparina, Christian Krekel and Sorawoot Srisuma

2024: Endogenous mobility in pandemics: Theory and evidence from the United States

Xiao Chen, Hanwei Huang, Jiandong Ju, Ruoyan Sun and Jialiang Zhang

2024: Should I stay or should I go? Return migration from the United States

Alan Manning and Graham Mazeine

2024: Home broadband and human capital formation

Jose Montalban, Rosa Sanchis-Guarner and Felix Weinhardt

2024: Firms in product space: Adoption, growth and competition

Luca Macedoni, John Morrow and Vladimir Tyazhelnikov

2024: Does subsidising business advice improve firm performance? Evidence from a large RCT

Gonzalo Nunez-Chaim, Henry Overman and Capucine Riom

2024: Labour market power: New evidence on Non-Compete Agreements and the effects of M&A in the UK

Julian Alves, Jason Greenberg, Yaxin Guo, Ravija Harjai, Bruno Serra-Lorenzo and John van Reenen

2024: Global managers, local workers: Wage setting inside a multinational firm

Virginia Minni

2024: The changing nature of pollution, income and environmental inequality in the United States

Jonathan Colmer, Suvy Qin, John Voorheis and Reed Walker

2024: The social footprint of globalization: Towards the introduction of strategic industries in quantitative trade models

Italo Colantone, Gianmarco Ottaviano and Piero Stanig

2024: Estimating the longevity of electric vehicles: What do 300 million MOT test results tell us?

Robert Elliott, Viet Nguyen-Tien, Eric Strobl and Chengyu Zhang

2024: Immigration, monopsony and the distribution of firm pay

Michael Amior and Jan Stuhler

2024: Is the electricity sector a weak link in development?

Jonathan Colmer, David Lagakos and Martin Shu

2023: Political ideology and innovation

Gaia Dossi and Marta Morando

2023: Autonomous schools, achievement and segregation

Jan Bietenbeck, Natalie Irmert, Linn Mattisson and Felix Weinhardt

2023: The erosion of homeownership and minority wealth

Stephen B. Billings and Adam Soliman

2023: Income inequality in the 21st century Poland

Pawel Bukowski, Pawel Chrostek, Filip Novokmet and Marek Skawinski

2023: Neoclassical growth in an interdependent world

Benny Kleinman, Ernest Liu, Stephen Redding and Motohiro Yogo

2023: Rethinking revealed comparative advantage with micro and macro data

Hanwei Huang and Gianmarco Ottaviano

2023: Urban-biased structural change

Natalie Chen, Dennis Novy, Carlo Perroni and Horng Chern Wong

2023: Tickets to the global market: First US patent awards and Chinese firm exports

Robin Kaiji Gong, Yao Li, Kalina Manova and Stephen Teng Sun

2023: Proximity of firms to scientific production

Antonin Bergeaud and Arthur Guillouzouic

2023: Exporting ideas: Knowledge flows from expanding trade in goods

Philippe Aghion, Antonin Bergeaud, Timothee Gigout, Matthieu Lequien and Marc Malitz

2023: The skyscraper revolution: Global economic development and land savings

Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt, Nathaniel Baum-Snow and Remi Jedwab

2023: Trade, innovation and optimal patent protection

David Hemous, Simon Lepot, Thomas Sampson and Julian Scharer

2023: Adapting or compounding? The effects of recurring labour shocks on stated and revealed preferences for redistribution

Maria Cotofan and Konstantinos Matakos

2023: Understanding multi-layered sanctions: A firm-level analysis

Javad Shamsi

2023: Regional productivity differences in the UK and France: From the micro to the macro

Bridget Kauma and Giordano Mion

2023: Individual welfare analysis: A tale of consumption, time use and preference heterogeneity

Tim Obermeier

2023: The distributional effects of trade: Theory and evidence from the United States

Kirill Borusyak and Xavier Jaravel

2023: Has financial fair play changed European football?

Ariela Caglio, Sébastien Laffitte, Donato Masciandaro and Gianmarco Ottaviano

2023: Induced innovation, inventors and the energy transition

Eugenie Dugoua and Todd Gerarden

2023: Do wind turbines have adverse health impacts

Christian Krekel, Johannes Rode and Alexander Roth

2023: Industrial policy and the great divergence

Reka Juhasz and Claudia Steinwender

2023: Making the invisible hand visible: Managers and the allocation of workers to jobs

Virginia Minni

2023: Induced innovation and international environmental agreements: Evidence from the ozone regime

Eugenie Dugoua

2023: Free to improve? The impact of free school attendance in England

Marco Bertoni, Gabriel Heller-Sahlgren and Olmo Silva

2023: Do larger firms exert more market power? Markups and markdowns along the size distribution

Matthias Mertens and Bernardo Mottironi

2023: Gender gaps from labor market shocks

Ria Ivandic and Anne Sophie Lassen

2023: Vacancy duration and wages

Ihsaan Bassier, Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo

2023: Are friends electric? Valuing the social costs of power lines using house prices

Stephen Gibbons and Cheng Tang

2023: Spatial wage inequality in North America and Western Europe: changes between and within local labour markets 1975-2019

Luis Bauluz, Sebastien Breau, Pawel Bukowski, Mark Fransham, Annie Seong Lee, Neil Lee, Margarita Lopez Forero, Clement Malgouyres, Filip Novokmet, Moritz Schularick and Gregory Verdugo

2023: Scars of war: the legacy of WW1 deaths on civic capital and combat motivation

Felipe Carozzi, Edward Pinchbeck and Luca Repetto

2023: Is having an expert "friend" enough? An analysis of consumer switching behavior in mobile telephony

Christos Genakos, Costas Roumanias and Tommaso Valletti

2023: Are the upwardly mobile more left-wing?

Andrew Clark and Maria Cotofan

2023: Public disclosure and tax compliance: evidence from Uganda

Priya Manwaring and Tanner Regan

2023: Does Chinese research hinge on US co-authors? Evidence from the China initiative

Philippe Aghion, Céline Antonin, Luc Paluskiewicz, David Strömberg, Raphael Wargon and Karolina Westin

2023: Remote work across jobs, companies and space

Nicholas Bloom, Steven Davis, Stephen Hansen, Peter Lambert, Raffaella Sadun and Bledi Taska

2023: Access to guns in the heat of the moment: more restrictive gun laws mitigate the effect of temperature on violence

Jonathan Colmer and Jennifer L. Doleac

2023: Knowledge spillovers from clean innovation. A tradeoff between growth and climate?

Ralf Martin and Dennis Verhoeven

2023: Back to Edgeworth? Estimating the value of time using hedonic experiences

Christian Krekel and George MacKerron

2023: Dissecting the sinews of power: international trade and the rise of Britain's fiscal-military state, 1689-1823

Ernesto Dal Bo, Karolina Hutkova, Lukas Leucht and Noam Yuchtman

2023: The measure of monopsony: the labour supply elasticity to the firm and its constituents

Nikhil Datta

2023: The impact of Covid-19 on productivity

Nicholas Bloom, Philip Bunn, Paul Mizen, Pawel Smietanka and Gregory Thwaites

2023: The dynamics of the 'Great Gatsby Curve' and a look at the curve during the Great Gatsby era

Diego Battiston, Stephan Maurer, Andrei Potlogea and Sevi Rodríguez Mora

2023: Dealing with adversity: religiosity or science? Evidence from the great influenza pandemic

Enrico Berkes, Davide M. Coluccia, Gaia Dossi and Mara P. Squicciarini

2023: The shift to remote work lessens wage-growth pressure

Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Steven Davis, Brent Meyer and Emil Mihaylov

2023: How hybrid working from home works out

Nicholas Bloom, Ruobing Han and James Liang

2023: Peer pressure and manager pressure in organisations

Diego Battiston, Jordi Blanes i Vidal, Tom Kirchmaier and Katalin Szemeredi

2023: VAT pass-through and competition: evidence from the Greek Islands

Lydia Dimitrakopoulou, Christos Genakos, Themistoklis Kampouris and Stella Papadokonstantaki

2023: Firming up price inflation

Lena Anayi, Nicholas Bloom, Philip Bunn, Paul Mizen, Gregory Thwaites and Ivan Yotzov

2023: Evaluating merger effects

Christos Genakos, Andreas Lamprinidis and James Walker

2023: Working from home around the world

Cevat Giray Aksoy, Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Steven Davis, Mathias Dolls and Pablo Zárate

2023: Imperfect signals

Georg Graetz

2023: Long social distancing

Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom and Steven Davis

2023: FDI and superstar spillovers: evidence from firm-to-firm transactions

Mary Amiti, Cédric Duprez, Jozef Konings and John van Reenen

2023: Local and national concentration trends in jobs and sales: the role of structural transformation

David Autor, Christina Patterson and John van Reenen

2023: The causal impact of maternal educational curricula on infant health at birth

Cristina Borra, Pilar Cuevas-Ruiz and Almudena Sevilla

2023: The signaling value of legal form in debt financing

Felix Bracht, Jeroen Mahieu and Steven Vanhaverbeke

2023: Are trade wars class wars? The importance of trade-induced horizontal inequality

Kirill Borusyak and Xavier Jaravel

2023: Non-compete agreements in a rigid labour market: the case of Italy

Tito Boeri, Andrea Garnero and Lorenzo G. Luisetto

2023: Murphy's Law or luck of the Irish? Disparate treatment of the Irish in 19th century courts

Anna Bindler, Randi Hjalmarsson, Stephen Machin and Melissa Rubio

2023: Modern manufacturing capital, labor demand and product market dynamics: evidence from France

Philippe Aghion, Céline Antonin, Simon Bunel and Xavier Jaravel

2023: Responsible sourcing? Theory and evidence from Costa Rica

Alonso Alfaro-Ureña, Benjamin Faber, Cecile Gaubert, Isabela Manelici and Jose Vasquez

2023: Online tutoring works: experimental evidence from a program with vulnerable children

Lucas Gortazar, Claudia Hupkau and Antonio Roldan

2023: Pay-as-they-get-in: attitudes towards migrants and pension systems

Tito Boeri, Matteo Gamalerio, Massimo Morelli and Margherita Negri

2023: Productive robots and industrial employment: the role of national innovation systems

Chrystalla Kapetaniou and Christopher Pissarides

2023: Strapped for cash: the role of financial constraints for innovating firms

Esther Ann Bøler, Andreas Moxnes and Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe

2023: Who stands on the shoulders of Chinese (scientific) giants? Evidence from chemistry

Pierre Azoulay, Shumin Qiu and Claudia Steinwender

2023: Environmental citizen complaints

Jonathan Colmer, Mary Evans and Jay Shimshack

2023: Robot adoption, worker-firm sorting and wage inequality: evidence from administrative panel data

Ester Faia, Gianmarco Ottaviano and Saverio Spinella

2023: Import competition, trade credit and financial frictions in general equilibrium

Federico Esposito and Fadi Hassan

2023: Multinationals, robots and the labor share

Fabrizio Leone

2023: The indirect effect of the Russian-Ukrainian war through international linkages: early evidence from the stock market

Marcus Biermann and Elsa Leromain

2023: The economics of cities: from theory to data

Stephen Redding

2023: Criminal charges, risk assessment and violent recidivism in cases of domestic abuse

Dan Black, Jeffrey Grogger, Tom Kirchmaier and Koen Sanders

2023: Do role models matter in large classes? New evidence on gender match effects in higher education

Stephan Maurer, Guido Schwerdt and Simon Wiederhold