Colonialism has important effects for former colonies, and despite the long colonial history between Europe and Africa, the nuances of the impacts of that history are relatively understudied. The c...

We propose a search and matching model to explore the labor market implications of a growing gig economy. The economy has conventional and gig sectors…

We document and assess the effect of a short-lived campaign on Russian state television to re-orient coverage of immigrants. Building on prior research – including a historical narrative and eviden...

Survey shows students rapidly picked up chatbots, but perhaps surprisingly, they more often used it to augment their learning, rather than hand work off.

In the three years since Dobbs, much has changed. Professor Caitlin Myers joined us again to discuss how she collects data on abortion and economics, and what that data shows us about the new normal f...

Despite massive military spending, tens of thousands of deaths, and a vast array of international sanctions, Russians’ sense of stability and life satisfaction has reached its highest level in the pas...

Trustees endorsed a $344 million budget, amended the core retirement plan, and reaffirmed their commitment to institutional autonomy and board independence.

They’re backward-looking indicators, but economists can’t know where we are unless they know where we’ve been.

Large fires can impact the job market of a local community for up to three years after the event, said Raphaelle Gauvin-Coulombe.

Akhil Rao discusses the accumulation of satellites and debris in Earth’s orbit and the governance of layers in the Earth’s orbit.

(February 2025) - We use administrative tax data to analyze the cumulative, long-run effects of California's 2004 Paid Family Leave Act (CPFL) on women's employment, earnings, and childbearing. A regression-discontinuity design exploits the sharp increase in the weeks of paid leave available under the law. We find no evidence that CPFL increased employment, boosted earnings, or encouraged childbearing, suggesting that CPFL had little effect on the gender pay gap or child penalty. For first-time mothers, we find that CPFL reduced employment and earnings a decade after they gave birth.

The ongoing disaster will affect residents’ health, local industries, public budgets and the cost of housing for years to come.

Join us foran exciting seminar by Amanda Gregg, an Associate Professor of Economics at Middlebury College!

It's a signal that the labor market is normalizing, said Kristina Sargent, an economics professor at Middlebury College.

Measuring the social preferences of economic agents using experiments has become common place. This process, while incentive compatible, is costly and time consuming, making it infeasible in many sett...

Forest loss in Nigeria raises neonatal mortality and worsens birth outcomes by increasing malaria exposure among pregnant women.