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NBER @nber.org · 54m

Examining evidence on the well-being and ill-being of the young for 22 countries between 2022 and 2024, from David G. Blanchflower and Alex Bryson www.nber.org/papers/w34321

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NBER @nber.org · 2h

Studying whether changes in violent conflict and economic growth caused by warming could interact to degrade economic opportunities and trap African countries in poverty, from Joel Ferguson, Marshall Burke, Edward Miguel, and Solomon M. Hsiang www.nber.org/papers/w34320

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NBER @nber.org · 3h

Open call for applications, Dissertation Fellow: Identifying and Nurturing Mathematical Talent Among Youth. Submit applications by 11:59pm EDT on January 4, 2026. More information: www.nber.org/calls-papers...

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NBER @nber.org · 4h

Theory and measurement of capital reallocation in private firms with implications for return heterogeneity and business taxation, from Anmol Bhandari, Paolo Martellini, and Ellen McGrattan www.nber.org/papers/w34319

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NBER @nber.org · 20h

AI and digital platforms improve efficiency in processing and transmitting information but erode producer incentives, resulting in less truthful news and more misinformation, from Joseph E. Stiglitz and Maxim Ventura-Bolet https://www.nber.org/papers/w34318

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NBER @nber.org · 22h

Recent breakthrough cancer medications substantially lowered mortality rates and (given their very high prices) increased spending for Medicare patients with melanoma, from Danea Horn, Abby E. Alpert, Mark Duggan, and Mireille Jacobson https://www.nber.org/papers/w34317

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NBER @nber.org · 23h

The latest NBER Reporter: www.nber.org/reporter?pag...

Featuring N. Gregory Mankiw’s Martin Feldstein Lecture on the US Fiscal Future, and research summaries by:
• Pol Antràs, Teresa C. Fort & Felix Tintelnot
• Niels Gormsen & Kilian Huber
• Amir Kermani & Timothy McQuade
• Manju Puri.

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NBER @nber.org · 1d

Abundant AI geniuses will be great, but only if we can work out what to use them for, from Ajay K. Agrawal, @joshgans.bsky.social, and Avi Goldfarb https://www.nber.org/papers/w34316

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NBER @nber.org · 1d

Characterizing the potential and limits of using satellite imagery and machine learning technology to measure ground conditions, from Proctor, Carleton, Chong, Fransen, Greenhill, Katz, Murayama, Sherman, Tseng, Druckenmiller, and Hsiang https://www.nber.org/papers/w34315

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NBER @nber.org · 1d

Introducing two modified preference formulations—Stone-Geary Modified (SGM) and a variant of CRIE—that allow for realistic income elasticities and choke prices while preserving the tractable CES structure of standard applied general-equilibrium models, from Jame... https://www.nber.org/papers/w34314

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NBER @nber.org · 1d

Featured in the latest Bulletin on Entrepreneurship: The Gig Economy and Entrepreneurship

https://www.nber.org/be/20252/gig-economy-and-entrepreneurship?page=1&perPage=50

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NBER @nber.org · 1d

Deviations from moderate temperatures kill hundreds of thousands each year in the US and EU, with limited evidence on which interventions work to reduce these burdens, from Burke, Wilson, Avirmed, Wallstein, Martins, Behrer, Callahan, Childs, Choi, French, Gould... https://www.nber.org/papers/w34313

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NBER @nber.org · 2d

Providing a framework to discipline and quantify assessments of AI's potential to accelerate progress in different research fields, from Benjamin Jones https://www.nber.org/papers/w34312

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NBER @nber.org · 2d

Via income pooling and below-market rate cross-border lending, the European Central Bank's unconventional policies created large, persistent transfers from Eurozone core to periphery countries, from Yi-Li Chien, Zhengyang Jiang, Matteo Leombroni, and Hanno Lustig https://www.nber.org/papers/w34311

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NBER @nber.org · 2d

Differences in the cost of acquiring human capital shape the geography of economic development. Regional proportional reductions in these costs dominate uniform policies, from Klaus Desmet, Dávid Krisztián Nagy, and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg https://www.nber.org/papers/w34310

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NBER @nber.org · 2d

Studying social protection programs in low-income countries finds no difference in efficacy between individual and group coaching. Although, group coaching is more cost-effective, from Beam, Brune, Das, Dercon, Goldberg, Haque, Karlan, Khan, Parkerson, Pople, Sa... https://www.nber.org/papers/w34309

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NBER @nber.org · 2d

In a monetary union, risk-free rates cannot adjust to country-level fiscal positions, leaving credit spreads and convenience yields to respond. The latter is empirically important, from Zhengyang Jiang, Hanno Lustig, Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, and Mindy Z. Xiaolan https://www.nber.org/papers/w34307

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NBER @nber.org · 2d

Private equity (PE) exhibits greater sensitivity to competition. Whether PE ownership helps or hurts consumers depends on the competitive incentives where PE acquisitions occur, from Ashvin Gandhi, YoungJun Song, and Prabhava Upadrashta https://www.nber.org/papers/w34306

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NBER @nber.org · 3d

Assessing how the greater reliance of fiscal policy on tariffs will affect the US tax system, from @kclausing.bsky.social and Maurice Obstfeld https://www.nber.org/papers/w34192

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NBER @nber.org · 3d

Featured in the latest Digest: Universal Occupational Licensing Recognition and Healthcare Access

https://www.nber.org/digest/202510/universal-occupational-licensing-recognition-and-healthcare-access?page=1&perPage=50

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NBER @nber.org · 4d

Quantifying the impact of perceived cancer risk on housing values using widely advertised national reclassifications of chemical carcinogenicity in the US, from Jules H. van Binsbergen, João F. Cocco, Marco Grotteria, and S. Lakshmi Naaraayanan https://www.nber.org/papers/w34305

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NBER @nber.org · 4d

Investigating the unintended consequences of maternity leave extension on gender gaps in the labor market, from Hanming Fang, Jiayin Hu, and Miao Yu https://www.nber.org/papers/w34304

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NBER @nber.org · 4d

Chinese cities more dependent on land sales and land-backed debt before the COVID-19 pandemic experienced greater price increases and price-volume divergence during the pandemic, from Jeffery (Jinfan) Chang, Yuheng Wang, and Wei Xiong https://www.nber.org/papers/w34303

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NBER @nber.org · 5d

Adopting a data-driven approach to measure trade fragmentation between 2015 and 2023, from Barthélémy Bonadio, Zhen Huo, Elliot Kang, Andrei A. Levchenko, Nitya Pandalai-Nayar, Hiroshi Toma, and Petia Topalova https://www.nber.org/papers/w34302

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NBER @nber.org · 5d

Equity frictions vary widely across Europe, shaping entrepreneurial finance, wealth, and output. Unlike debt, reducing them boosts efficiency while also reducing inequality, from Alessandra Peter https://www.nber.org/papers/w34301

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