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Protest Matters : The Effects of Protests on Economic Redistribution

Archibong, Belinda; Okafor, Chinemelu; Osabuohien, Evans; … - 2026

Can citizen-led protests lead to meaningful economic redistribution and nudge governments to increase redistributive fiscal transfers? We study the effects of protests on fiscal redistribution using evidence from Nigeria. We digitized twenty-six years of public finance data from 1988 to 2016 to...

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Coca's Return and the American Overdose Fallout

Du, Xinming; Hansen, Benjamin; Zhang, Shan; Zou, Eric … - 2026

Colombian coca cultivation fell dramatically between 2000 and 2015, a period that saw intense U.S.-backed eradication and interdiction efforts. That progress reversed in 2015, when peace talks and legal rulings in Colombia opened enforcement gaps. Coca plantation has since increased to record...

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Geopolitics in the Evaluation of International Scientific Collaboration

Furnas, Alexander C.; Jia, Ruixue; Roberts, Margaret E.; … - 2026

This study provides evidence that geopolitical considerations systematically shape funding evaluations of international collaboration proposals. We examine this dynamic in the consequential context of U.S.-China collaboration. Across two large-scale randomized experiments with U.S. policymakers...

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Is Immigration Good for Health? : The Effect of Immigration on Older Adult Mortality in the United States

Grabowski, David C.; Gruber, Jonathan; McGarry, Brian - 2026

We measure the impact of increased immigration on mortality among elderly Americans, who rely on the immigrant-intensive health and long-term care sectors. Using a shift-share approach we find a strong impact of immigration on the size of the immigrant care workforce: admitting 1,000 new...

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American Investment in Chinese Renminbi

Cavani, Bruno; Clayton, Christopher; Santos, Amanda dos; … - 2026

This paper uses microdata on U.S. mutual fund and ETF portfolios from SEC Form NPORT to study American investment in Chinese Renminbi (RMB)-denominated bonds. We show that, even as total foreign holdings of Chinese bonds rebounded in 2024, U.S. holdings of RMB bonds fell sharply and that most of...

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The H-1B Wage Gap, Visa Fees, and Employer Demand

Borjas, George J. - 2026

The H-1B program lets firms hire high-skill foreign workers for a six-year term. The annual number of visas allocated to for-profit firms is capped at 85,000 and there is excess demand for those visas. The analysis merges administrative data, including the I-129 petitions that report the wage...

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ICE Arrests across Trump's First and Second Terms : Variation in Targeting, Method, and Geography

East, Chloe N.; Patler, Caitlin; Cox, Elizabeth - 2026

Deportation is often framed as a necessary tool to protect public safety by removing people who commit crimes. We use newly available, and externally validated, administrative data containing all US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests from September 2015-October 2025. Beyond...

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Younger Firms and CEOs Allow More Work from Home

Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; … - 2026

We establish three facts about work from home (WFH) in the United States. First, employees WFH more often at younger firms - almost twice as often at firms founded after 2015 than at firms founded before 1990. Second, employees working under younger CEOs have higher levels of WFH. The average...

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The Effect of Exposure : Evidence from Spatial Choices in Nairobi

Dean, Joshua T.; Kreindler, Gabriel E.; Mbonu, Oluchi - 2026

How much do people dislike opportunities they have never been exposed to, and why? We study how exposure affects work location decisions of casual workers. We offer short-term employment and randomize training locations to induce novel exposures. Participants sacrifice 22% of the median daily...

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Class Mobility in the Era of Rising Inequality : A Synthetic Dynasty Analysis

Wodtke, Geoffrey; Wang, Weiqi; Butaeva, Kristina; … - 2026

This paper studies contemporary trends in class mobility using a new approach based on the "synthetic dynasties" represented in Markov chains. This approach yields several novel measures of movement and memory, which respectively capture how class positions differ from one generation to the next...

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