The response of aggregate labor supply to various changes in the economic environment is central to many economic issues, especially the optimal design of tax policies. Conventional wisdom based on studies in the 1980s and 1990s has long held that the analysis of micro data leads one to conclude...

1. Harmonising creativity -- 2. Redesigning China's creative space -- 3. Clusters and regional development -- 4. Beijing : creative capital or state-managed openness? -- 5. Art districts : the pin-up child of the Chinese creative economy -- 6. Shanghai's cluster-led creative renaissance -- 7....

"I analyze two extensions to the standard model of life cycle labor supply that feature operative choices along both the intensive and extensive margin. The first assumes that individuals face different continuous wage-hours schedules. The second assumes that all work must be coordinated across...

Using data on essentially every U.S. Supreme Court decision since 1946, we estimate a model of peer effects on the Court. We estimate the impact of justice ideology and justice votes on the votes of their peers. To identify the peer effects, we use two instruments that generate plausibly...