The U.S. nuclear industry has overcome a challenging period during which low wholesale market prices threatened the survival of nuclear power plants (NPPs). From 2017 to 2019, several U.S. states initiated out-of-market support schemes to bolster the financial conditions of NPPs. This paper...

Dietrich and Sands (2023) used New York City traffic camera footage to experimentally examine the effect of a pair of racialized confederate bystanders on the distance pedestrians maintained from those bystanders as they passed them on the sidewalk. Across their block-randomized experimental...

The U.S. nuclear industry has overcome a challenging period during which low wholesale market prices threatened the survival of nuclear power plants (NPPs). From 2017 to 2019, several U.S. states initiated out-of-market support schemes to bolster the financial conditions of NPPs. This paper...

This report investigates the computational reproducibility and robustness of the paper "Seeing Racial Avoidance on New York City Streets" (Dietrich and Sands 2023). These reproduction efforts are part of the mass reproduction initiative for articles published in Nature Human Behaviour (NHB),...

A decade after the adoption of the 2030 Agenda, the 2025 High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) marks a pivotal moment to assess the world's progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Recent global crises have significantly hindered progress, underscoring the need for a more systemic and...

A decade after the adoption of the 2030 Agenda, the 2025 High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) marks a pivotal moment to assess the world's progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Recent global crises have significantly hindered progress, underscoring the need for a more systemic and...

The Summit of the Future will bring together world Leaders, policymakers from all corners of the globe and civil society representatives from communities throughout the planet. At times of uncertainty, this gathering holds a responsibility: to pave way for a future where cooperation and...

The Summit of the Future will bring together world Leaders, policymakers from all corners of the globe and civil society representatives from communities throughout the planet. At times of uncertainty, this gathering holds a responsibility: to pave way for a future where cooperation and...

We document the real-time forecasting performance for output and inflation of the New York Fed dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model since 2011. We find the DSGE's accuracy to be comparable to that of private forecasters before Covid, but somewhat worse thereafter.

The paper evaluates the long-run impact of charity nurseries for disadvantaged children in early 20th-century New York. Access to charity nurseries with kindergarten instruction raised children's years of education and reduced their likelihood of working in low-skilled jobs later in life....

Evidence on cannabis legalization's effects on mental health remains scarce, despite both rapid increases in cannabis use and an ongoing mental health crisis in the United States. We use granular geographic data to estimate medical cannabis dispensary availability's effects on self-reported...

Urban street-level greenery is empirically documented to improve mental and physical health, increase productivity, increase urban environmental equality and reduce carbon footprints. In addition, these benefits raise residents' welfare, which has been correlated with increases in residential...

I analyze the impact of a non-traditional teacher preparation program, Relay Graduate School of Education, on student non-test outcomes for all New York City public school students in grades 3–8 over 6 years. By controlling for student and school fixed effects, I use plausibly random variation...

Concerns over rising office vacancy rates and falling office building property values in many urban areas have increased the pressure on cities and developers to consider converting underused office space to residential use. To aid in current and future conversations surrounding the feasibility...

Midway of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) 2023 marks a pivotal point in the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The impact of the multiple crises of the past years, as well as the interlinkages and synergies of the SDGs...

Midway of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) 2023 marks a pivotal point in the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The impact of the multiple crises of the past years, as well as the interlinkages and synergies of the SDGs...

New York surviving spouses are protected by the right of election and the Retirement Equity Act of 1984 (REACT). Although both cover retirement plan benefits, there is an unjust gap in these protections for the surviving spouses of retired New York public employees. These surviving spouses often...

Ciacci & Sviatschi’s (2021) “The Effect of Adult Entertainment Establishments on Sex Crime: Evidence from New York City,” published in The Economic Journal, concluded that opening a new strip club reduced sex crimes, with the most compelling finding that “[strip clubs and gentleman’s...

From 1860 to 1913 the six colonies that became states of Australia strove to attract migrants from the UK with a variety of assisted passages. The colonies/states shared a common culture and sought migrants from a common source, the UK, but set policy independently of each other. This experience...

We apply the Gross City Development Index (GCD-Index) by Ruiz Estrada and Park (2019) in the case of New York City, U.S.. The GCD-Index calculation is based on the concept of city integral sustainable development platform. The platform consists of ten main structures, which are (i) Main...

Original research suggests that only a few zip codes in middle Brooklyn and the Bronx suffer vastly more power outages than the rest of New York City. Utilizing data from New York City's 311 system, as well as technical data from the New York State Independent Service Operator, the author has...

In 1829 the New York legislature granted new charters to 28 banks. Over $5 million in capital was subscribed by 1745 individuals or entities. The average distance from investor to bank is less than 40 miles, and the average number of investors is 75 per bank, with ownership and control closely...

Despite the consensus on the inefficiencies it creates in the housing market, rent stabilization is often advocated by tenant groups as a housing affordability policy. I show that contrary to usual belief, the main benefit of rent regulation for tenants is not the protection it provides against...

Terrorist attacks have often been found to impact voting behaviours in the country of the attack. Here I study the impact of 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York on voting preferences in the UK, concluding that 9/11 impacted the voting intentions of the British, significantly increasing...

This article analyses the relationship between the volatility and sensitivity measures determined based on accounting profitability ratios and those calculated based on rates of return of public corporations from DJIA. The study employed downside and symmetric risk measures. The average...

Karl Marx, a pioneer of anti-imperialism (or anti-mercantilism), was exiled in the 1850s in London. A decade later, he wrote nearly 500 editorials for The New York Herald Tribune. Although a handful of these editorials offer important clues for understanding Marx’s thinking on imperialism,...

Parties engaged in international commercial transactions often face complex disputes due to differing nationalities, laws, and legal systems. To resolve issues arising from the complexities of international commercial transactions, arbitration is commonly chosen to provide a suitable platform...

On May 26, 2023, New York City Mayor Eric Adams signed landmark legislation prohibiting weight and height discrimination in employment, housing, and public accommodations. As the New York City Commissioner on Human Rights explained, “most forms of appearance-based discrimination have persisted...