Since the mid-1970s, there has been a sharp rise in the prevalence of “bad jobs” in the U.S. labor market, characterized by stagnant wages, unstable work schedules, and limited…
Fall-related injuries (FRIs) are a major cause of hospitalizations among older patients, but identifying them in unstructured clinical notes poses challenges for large-scale…
Campaign staff, journalists, and political scientists commonly attribute the poor performances of a party’s down-ballot candidates to low-quality or extreme top-of-the-ticket…
This chapter reviews the intellectual contributions of Lawrence F. Katz, whose work has catalysed two intellectual revolutions in economics. One applies the lens of general…
We show that intergenerational mobility changed rapidly by race and class in recent decades and use these trends to study the causal mechanisms underlying changes in economic…
Manufacturing generates very little employment in the developing world. Urban jobs are predominantly informal, unproductive, and in services. It seems unlikely that manufacturing…
This paper develops a novel method to identify the causal contribution of managers to team performance. The method requires repeated random assignment of managers to multiple…
Intergenerational mobility captures the distance between the socioeconomic positions of parents versus their adult children. Researchers measure this distance in absolute and…
Recent efforts to control spending, including accountable care organizations, value-based payment, and high-deductible health plans, have emphasized optimizing patterns of health…
We study newsworthiness in theory and practice. We focus on situations in which a news outlet observes the realization of a state of the world and must decide whether to report…
