Kristin Forbes, 40th Annual Conference on Macroeconomics "Tradeoffs and Sacrifice over Rate Cycles: Activity, Inflation and the Price Level" ...

Cecilia Rouse, president of the Brookings Institution and a professor at Princeton University, who chaired the Council... 2024 Methods Lecture, Susan Athey, "Analysis and Design of Multi-Armed Bandit ...

2025, Panel Discussion, 40th Annual Conference on Macroeconomics "The Steep Decline in Global Fertility: Causes and Consequences" ...

We show that leadership skill with artificially intelligent (AI) agents predicts leadership skill with human groups. In a large pre-registered lab experiment, human leaders worked with AI agents to ...

In addition to working papers, the NBER disseminates affiliates’ latest findings through a range of free periodicals — the NBER Reporter, the NBER Digest, the Bulletin on Retirement and Disability, ...

We conduct a long-run evaluation of one of the oldest professional mentoring programs for underrepresented groups in economics, the American Economic Association Mentoring Program (AEAMP). The AEAMP ...

How good is AI at persuading humans to perform costly actions? We study calls made to get delinquent consumer borrowers to repay. Regression discontinuity and a randomized experiment reveal that AI is ...

This paper develops a complete-market production economy with heterogeneous beliefs about TFP growth. Hiring occurs before TFP is known and is, therefore, risky (operational leverage). The firm's ...

Public service reforms often provoke political backlash. Can they also yield political benefits for the politicians who champion them? We study a Wisconsin law that weakened teachers’ unions and ...

We introduce the concept of racial capital, defined as the collective material and non- material assets of the racial groups to which a child is exposed while growing up, and examine its potential to ...

We examine the impact of encouragement emails sent to high-performing students in a principles of microeconomics course at a large state university, aimed at motivating them to take additional ...

This study evaluates an environmental education program in the Dominican Republic, targeting children’s attitudes, knowledge, behaviors, and willingness to pay for conservation. The program boosted ...