Wage growth is a key indicator of labor market conditions, but common measures often conflate individual wage changes with shifts in workforce composition. This paper develops a composition-adjusted measure of wage growth using nonparametric decomposition and program evaluation methods. The...

The original study by Graham et al. (2024) investigated whether loneliness changes with age across the adult lifespan, synthesizing data from nine longitudinal studies via meta-analyses. The primary finding was that loneliness follows a U-shaped trajectory: decreasing from young adulthood to...