Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

Research explores how couples make career decisions.

Nobel laureate James Heckman explains why ages zero to five are critical for brain development and lifelong outcomes. He discusses the Perry Preschool Program’s surprising health benefits 35 years later, why low-cost home-visiting programs that engage parents outperform expensive institutional interventions, and how “dynamic complementarity” means early skills beget later skills. Heckman also critiques economics’ Read more...

Reed Showalter argues that the suggestion that antitrust can be ringfenced from democracy or the democratic process is erroneous. Antitrust is fundamentally a body of law designed to meet citizens' basic needs, sustain the marketplace of ideas, and protect democracy and the rule of law. This article is the final contribution to a symposium that [...]

Capitalisn’t podcast hosts Luigi Zingales and Bethany McLean interrogate the relationship between the Supreme Court and the economy.

Erik Peinert explores the paradoxical relationship between economic concentration and democracy, where economic concentration compromises the democratic process and democratic backsliding also gains momentum by taking advantage of concentrated market actors, whose political power is now impotent, to capture civil society.

Chicago Booth’s Andrew Leon Hanna discusses how policymakers should respond to the global proliferation of displaced people.

In the 2016 US presidential campaign, immigration has reaffirmed its status as one of the most prominent wedge issues in American politics.

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

The U.S. government will collect a multibillion-dollar fee from the American investors who will take over TikTok. Some experts call the fee and other deals like it "extortion."

The new owner can change advertising and coverage.

Drafts of unpublished rules obtained by ProPublica detail plans that would open the door to full-time work requirements, two-year limits on living in federally supported housing and stripping aid from...

Stereotype reactance could play a crucial role in motivating women.

Erik Hovenkamp and A. Douglas Melamed discuss what Judge Amit Mehta got right and wrong in his remedy decision in the Google Search antitrust case.

The US Federal Reserve can still move short-term rates, but regulatory changes have forced it to find new ways to do so.

Research provides a clear takeaway for combating future public-health crises.

In new research, Tomaso Duso, Joseph Harrington, Carl Kreuzberg, and Geza Sapi demonstrate how their screening tool can aid antitrust authorities in identifying potential collusion between firms through public communications.