This paper examines how power lawyers shape judicial and economic outcomes by studying the “revolving door” between judges and lawyers in China’s judicial system—namely, former judges who quit the ...

Phone usage in the classroom has been linked to worsened academic outcomes. We present findings from a field experiment conducted at a large public university in partnership with an app marketed as a ...

Nutritional disparities across socioeconomic groups contribute to health inequality in the U.S. This paper studies the role of heterogeneous consumer preferences in food choices and explores pricing ...

Firm location decisions are a key managerial choice, usually optimized over factors like proximity to customers or suppliers. These decisions may also impose externalities on the environment, and on ...

We examine how the political ideology of corporate leaders shapes cross-border firm networks. Exploiting changes in ideological alignment between U.S. firm CEOs and foreign governments around close ...

Sequential choices are ubiquitous in daily life, yet making optimal decisions in such settings—where properly accounting for option value is crucial—can be challenging. This paper provides field ...

We study the post-World War II “Golden Age” of American corporate research from 1945 to 1980, using multiple indicators of corporate research activity. We use an ensemble learning approach to classify ...

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Dean Corbae, 40th Annual Conference on Macroeconomics "Credit Scores and Inequality Across the Life Cycle" April 11, 2025. Share ...

Cecilia Rouse, president of the Brookings Institution and a professor at Princeton University, who chaired the Council... 2024 Methods Lecture, Susan Athey, "Analysis and Design of Multi-Armed Bandit ...

Kristin Forbes, 40th Annual Conference on Macroeconomics "Tradeoffs and Sacrifice over Rate Cycles: Activity, Inflation and the Price Level" ...

2025, Panel Discussion, 40th Annual Conference on Macroeconomics "The Steep Decline in Global Fertility: Causes and Consequences" ...