Axbard and Deng (2024) exploit the rollout of new pollution monitors in China in 2015 in 177 medium-size cities to study the effect of air-quality monitors on enforcement actions by local governments and air quality. In their main difference-in-difference analysis, they identify the change in...

In a systematic review and meta-analysis, Wang et al. (2023) estimate the association of social isolation or loneliness with mortality outcomes. In their preferred analytical specification, the authors find an increased risk of mortality from all causes for both exposures: a pooled effect size...

In a systematic review and meta-analysis, Wang et al. (2023) estimate the association of social isolation or loneliness with mortality outcomes. In their preferred analytical specification, the authors find an increased risk of mortality from all causes for both exposures: a pooled effect size...

Barro et al. (2022) investigate the quantity of safe assets held in the cross-section of developed countries and find that the average safe-asset ratio (ratio of safe assets to total assets) was 37% in 2015 and has remained relatively stable over time. They also document a crowding-out...

Bold et al. (2022b) investigate the effect of providing access to a larger, centralized market where quality is rewarded with a premium on farm productivity and framing incomes from smallholder maize farmers in western Uganda, using a series of randomized experiments and a...

Axbard and Deng (2024) exploit the rollout of new pollution monitors in China in 2015 in 177 medium-size cities to study the effect of air-quality monitors on enforcement actions by local governments and air quality. In their main difference-in-difference analysis, they identify the change in...