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Quantitative Economic History

2 items

Beyond the Conventional Narrative: Economic Heterogeneity and Human Capital Among American Indians

NBER Randall Akee, Emilia Simeonova · September 2026

Documents how geography, resource endowments and historical federal policy have produced persistent heterogeneity in economic and human-capital outcomes among American Indians.

Immigration and Child Mortality during the Age of Mass Migration

NBER Katherine Eriksson, Peter Zhixian Lin, Gregory Niemesh · September 2026

Builds a new town-level panel for Massachusetts, 1860-1915, to test whether immigrant-crowded neighborhoods raised child mortality during the Age of Mass Migration.

Causal Inference & Applied Microeconometrics

7 items

Spillover Effects of Regulatory Inspections: Evidence from OSHA

NBER Matthew S. Johnson, David Levine, Michael W. Toffel · September 2026

Uses OSHA's Site-Specific Targeting rule to identify spillover effects of regulatory inspections on nearby, uninspected establishments, addressing the selection problem in enforcement targeting.

Measuring Racial Disparities in Police Stops: Evidence from Telemetric Mobility Data

NBER Xiaofeng Gong, Yuling Han, Susan T. Parker, Matthew B. Ross, Stephen Ross · September 2026

Introduces a two-stage telemetric-data correction method to construct a credible counterfactual motorist population for measuring racial disparities in traffic stops.

Heritability and Social Interaction in Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the Population of Twins in the United States

NBER David Card, Jesse Rothstein, Moises Yi · September 2026

Extends the Classical Twins Design using 44,000 monozygotic and dizygotic twin pairs to separate heritable from social-interaction components of labor-market outcomes.

Was Your Degree Worth It? Heterogeneous Returns to Higher Education, Fields of Study and Skill Mismatch

NEP-LAB RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series Lorenzo Navarini, Dieter Verhaest · 2026-07

Identifies heterogeneous returns to higher education using a generalized sequential Roy model of enrollment, skill mismatch and labor-market sorting.

Locally Robust Semiparametrically Efficient Bayesian Inference

ECMA Ulrich Müller, Andriy Norets · 2026-09-14

Proposes a Bayesian estimator that stays semiparametrically efficient and robust to local misspecification of a parametric model.

Causal Inference With Noisy Covariates: Heteroscedastic Measurement Error and Differential Privacy

ECMA Anish Agarwal, Rahul Singh · 2026-09-14

Develops semiparametric causal-inference methods for high-dimensional covariates observed with heteroscedastic measurement error and differential-privacy noise.

Causal Inference for Spatial Treatments

ECMA Michael Pollmann · 2026-09-14

Derives an experimental-design-based identification strategy for the causal effects of spatially located treatments on nearby units.

Institutional & Political Economy

3 items

The Federal Lands: An Economic Property Rights Perspective

NBER Gary D. Libecap · September 2026

Treats the 472-million-acre U.S. federal land estate as a collective-resource property-rights regime shaped by political and bureaucratic bargaining under the Multiple Use mandate.

Screening Property Rights for Innovation

ECMA William Matcham, Mark Schankerman · 2026-09-14

Uses an NLP-based patent-distance measure and a structural model of examiner screening to study how patent property-rights institutions shape innovation incentives.

How to build inclusive institutions: collective governance in global history

JIE Federica Carugati, Riley Wong · 2026-09-14

Draws on historical cases of collective governance across global history to derive design principles for building inclusive political institutions.

Sports Economics

2 items

Retail Betting Markets

NEP-SPO Scott R. Baker, Justin Balthrop, Mark J. Johnson, Jason D. Kotter, Kevin Pisciotta · 2026-07

Reviews the convergence of sports betting, prediction markets and retail options trading, highlighting the shared behavioral and regulatory drivers relevant to sports-betting market design.

Drivers of Success: A Bayesian State-Space Model to Disentangling Latent Driver and Constructor Abilities in Formula One

NEP-SPO Papers Tim Lindner, Rui Jorge Almeida, Nalan Ba\c{s}t\"urk, Stephan Smeekes · 2026-08

Proposes a Bayesian state-space model to disentangle latent driver and constructor ability in Formula One from qualifying times and race rankings.

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