National Bureau of Economic Research

Studying interventions intended to eliminate gender differences in labor market outcomes, principally wages, from Carla Varona Cervantes and Russell Cooper https://lnkd.in/eWX_tbEN

New country-level measures of productivity in collecting taxes and their role in economic development, from Radhika Goyal, Anders Jensen, David Lagakos, Abdoulaye Ndiaye, and Yuntian Zhao https://lnkd.in/e38f5X3S

Albania banned religion in 1967, razing religious sites except the 6 percent listed as monuments in 1948. Where none survived, women’s employment rose more, from Richard Murphy and Shqiponja Telhaj https://lnkd.in/e8FtY2W2

France’s Visale rent insurance helps vulnerable tenants access housing and move to higher-wage areas at moderate public cost—but may raise rents for ineligible renters, from Thomas Bézy, Antoine B. Levy, and Timothy McQuade https://lnkd.in/euwUuYhC

Using the case study of California's $20 fast-food minimum wage to explore the sensitivity of synthetic control and synthetic difference-in-differences methods to researcher degrees of freedom, from Jeffrey Clemens, Olivia Edwards, Jonathan Meer, and Joshua D. Nguyen https://lnkd.in/eEwWpev4

Featured in the latest Bulletin on Entrepreneurship: Who Gets Ahead in Venture Capital: New Evidence from 100,000 Investors' Careers https://lnkd.in/eWeC3n6g

Finding moderate effects of most unconditional financial policies on college attendance, with small effects on completion conditional on attendance. By contrast, some merit-based incentives have substantial effects, from Douglas N. Harris, Christopher R. Taber, and Yu (Alan) Yang https://lnkd.in/e2QH8YbK

Studying the role occupational ladders play in average wage growth and in the fanning out of wages over the life cycle, from Henry E. Siu, Kelly Foley, and Guido Matias Cortes https://lnkd.in/eEhca2h9

Self-oriented central banks should care about currency misalignments. Cooperation isn't needed if policy rules are set before asset trading; setting them after lowers welfare, from Louphou Coulibaly and Charles Engel https://lnkd.in/eN38fhRW

Can AI predict household behavior? HouseholdBench tests 13 LLMs on 32 tasks. A fine-tuned open model rivals frontier AI and approaches statistical benchmarks, from Jin Huang, Diego Ferreras Garrucho, Yutong Xie, Walter M. Yuan, Qiaozhu Mei, Chen Lian, and Jonathon Hazell https://lnkd.in/eJRtb4jR