NBER affiliates George Borjas, Kim Ruhl, and Pierre Yared have taken positions at the Council of Economic Advisers. Borjas is serving as a Senior Economist, Ruhl as a Member, and Yared as Vice Chair ...

We examine the causal effect of health insurance on mortality using the universe of low-income adults, a dataset of 37 million individuals identified by linking the 2010 Census to administrative tax ...

The NBER has awarded six Robert Summers fellowships to enable economic statisticians from government agencies and international organizations to attend the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth ...

The NBER has awarded six Robert Summers fellowships to enable economic statisticians from government agencies and international organizations to attend the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth ...

This paper explores the two-way relationship between international migration and political regime change, emphasizing the potential for a feedback loop: political shifts influence migration patterns, ...

This volume refines and extends the economic history literature on economic inequality in the United States. Economic ...

Despite growing public funding for religious schools through U.S. school choice programs, little is known about what they teach. We examine textbooks from public schools, religious private schools, ...

Long-Term Care around the World documents and compares long-term care programs in 10 developed countries of varying sizes and ...

We use a dynamic trade and reallocation model with downward nominal wage rigidities to quantitatively assess the economic consequences of recent U.S. tariff increases on imports from Mexico, Canada, ...

Legal claims are increasingly being considered as an alternative asset class, however, there appears to be a lack of a standard methodology for valuing litigation risk. This paper proposes a dynamic ...

We investigate conditions sufficient for identification of average treatment effects using instrumental variables. First we show that the existence of valid instruments is not sufficient to identify ...

We find that the price volatility of renewable assets is significantly greater than that of brown assets. Our causal estimates leverage the response of electricity and credit markets to US state-level ...