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The costs of the Trump tariffs are borne by Americans – Contrary to the claims of the Trump administration, the passthrough rate of the 2025 Trump tariffs into prices were 92%, resulting in higher costs for US consumers and manufacturers who rely on imported inputs…

Collective bargaining rights for police significantly increase police killings of civilians without having any impact on officer safety

Zoning reform in Sao Paulo to permit dense housing construction along transit corridors led to more housing supply and lower housing prices

Study finds that unionization increased average faculty salaries with the biggest gains going to lower paid faculty with little evidence that universities hired fewer faculty after unionization using Canadian university faculty data from 1970–2022.

AEJ study: The H2-B visa program, intended for temporary or seasonal low-skill labor, boosts production, investment, and profits

The normalization and mass increase in remote work has substantially increased disability employment, as physically disabled workers can work from home

International migration is a powerful poverty alleviation tool – Emigration from the Philippines contributed to broad-based economic growth in the Philippines

AEJ study: The launch of Tinder "led to a sharp, persistent increase in sexual activity, but with little corresponding impact on the formation of long-term relationships..

Pediatric flu vaccines substantially reduce emergency care visits

Immigration boosts innovation and wages in the US

High-skill migration from Asia to the United States since 1990 to work in the tech sector has substantially boosted US innovation

The countries with highest labor productivity will see declines in the labor force while Africa will account for most of the labor growth

Data across thousands of economics seminars, job market talks, and conference presentations show that women are interrupted more than men (even when controlling for relevant characteristics)

Racial residential segregation leads to more non-white homicides – Segregation, historically enabled by discriminatory government policies, depletes the local tax base…

In the 1950s, Norwegian dairy firms began widely adopting milking machines to replace hand-milking, a task typically performed by young women

COVID vaccination of children reduced COVID cases in the vaccinated children by 80%

Construction of the Autobahn network in Nazi Germany boosted popular support for Adolf Hitler, helping to entrench the Nazi dictatorship

For a large share of social media users, digital platforms have become a trap

When economies are sufficiently large, unilateral decarbonization (a single economy's efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions independently of what others do) pays for itself

Blockbusting (inducing people to sell their homes upon the entry of minorities to a neighborhood) substantially harmed Black wealth accumulation: Black households that bought homes in neighborhoods with rapid racial change were likely to have lost money or barely broken even by 1990.

Rising wealth dispersion and stagnating housing supply explain the increase in US housing costs. Demand-side policies (e.g

The George W. Bush administration's 2002 steel tariffs caused substantial economic harm without any observed benefits

The Folk Economics of Housing

Income Equality in Nordic Countries: Myths, Facts, and Lessons

Human Capital Investment after Loss of Ability - Reskilling subsidies for workers that enroll in Bachelor's programs after work accidents pay for themselves 4x

Administrative burdens limit the ability of people to access benefits that they are eligible for

Incumbent energy providers in the US stand to lose massively by allowing the integration of renewable energy into the power grid, creating strong incentives to block new transmission lines

Google pays manufacturers handsomely to be the default search engine on devices

Children in Denmark with immigrant parents tend to have worse economic, education and crime outcomes

Health and educational outcomes improved for each American cohort across the 20th century until the period 1947-1960

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