NEW in the Journal of Political Economy: "Changes in Marital Sorting: Theory and Evidence from the United States" By Pierre-André Chiappori, Monica Costa Dias, Costas Meghir, and Hanzhe Zhang: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

NEW in @nber.org: "Drivers of Digital Payment Adoption: Lessons from Brazil, Costa Rica, and Mexico" By David Argente, Paula Gonzalez Alvarez, Esteban Méndez, and Diana Van Patten: www.nber.org/papers/w34280

"This paper revisits the relationship between international trade, trade policy, and development in light of the structural, policy, and geopolitical shifts that have transformed globalization over the past decade." NEW in @nber.org by Goldberg & Ruta: www.nber.org/papers/w34283

Join us for the 6th Women in International Economics Conference, October 16-17, 2025 at Yale! See the agenda below. More information here: cowles.yale.edu/events/2025/...

"We develop a method of solving rational expectations models with dispersed information and dynamic strategic complementarities." NEW in The Review of Economic Studies by Zhen Huo & Naoki Takayama: academic.oup.com/restud/artic...

"Using geographic discontinuities in the Norwegian annual net-wealth tax and third-party-reported data on savings, I find that wealth taxation causes households to save more." NEW in The Review of Economic Studies by Marius Ring: academic.oup.com/restud/artic...

Join us tomorrow (Sept. 10) at noon for the first Cowles Lunch Talk of the semester! Featuring Dirk Bergemann on "Information Design in the Digital Economy:" cowles.yale.edu/events/cowle...

"This paper proposes that test-optional policies are a response to social pressure on admission decisions." NEW in the American Economic Review by Wouter Dessein, Alex Frankel, and Navin Kartik: www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Join us for the 6th Women in International Economics Conference, October 16-17, 2025 at Yale! See the agenda below. More information here: cowles.yale.edu/events/2025/...

As we kick off the fall semester, join us in welcoming our new faculty members to Yale! Learn more about their backgrounds and research: economics.yale.edu/news/250828/...

"This paper introduces a decomposition of welfare assessments for general dynamic stochastic economies with heterogeneous individuals." NEW in Journal of Political Economy by Eduardo Dávila and Andreas Schaab: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

As we kick off the fall semester, join us in welcoming our new faculty members to Yale! Learn more about their backgrounds and research: economics.yale.edu/news/250828/...

"We examine whether large-scale information interventions can improve college application outcomes in a centralized admissions system." NEW in @nber.org by Tomás Larroucau, Ignacio A. Rios, Anaïs Fabre, & Christopher Neilson nber.org/papers/w34164

Former White House National Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi visited Yale's Tobin Center to discuss challenges and opportunities for business leaders, policymakers, & others in this moment of disruption in the clean energy space. Watch the full interview here: tobin.yale.edu/news/250821/...

How much could an economy grow from improvements in women’s labor market opportunities? The Global Gender Distortions Index (GGDI) links changes in gender gaps in the labor market to productivity growth. NEW in @nber.org: nber.org/papers/w34142

🆕 How internal migration is reshaping rural India Today on VoxDev, @raamadhok.bsky.social (University of Minnesota), Frederik Noack (UBC), @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social (Yale) & Olivier Deschenes (UCSB) discuss the internal migration of agricultural workers in India: voxdev.org/topic/migrat...

NEW Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper: "We show how to use randomized participation incentives to test and account for nonresponse bias in surveys." By Deniz Dutz, Ingrid Huitfeldt, Santiago Lacouture, Magne Mogstad, Alexander Torgovitsky, & Winnie van Dijk: cowles.yale.edu/research/cfd...

Join us for an informational session about the IDE Master's program hosted by EGC & @yaleeconomics.bsky.social. 📅 Wednesday, August 20: Two sessions: 8AM & 2PM ET 💻 Register for the 8AM session: yale.zoom.us/s/96899267601 💻 Register for the 2PM session: yale.zoom.us/s/99609469695

The IDE Program is a one-year Master's program that helps students build the necessary toolkit for embracing obstacles in their future careers in international development. 📖 Read more about the program at the IDE website: economics.yale.edu/ide-ma-program

We're proud to announce an outstanding cohort of undergraduate economics Peer Mentors for 2025-2026: Johanna Dammann, Ellie Jiang, Sonia Jin, Kylie Kim, and Megan Wright. Learn more about the program and the Mentors here: economics.yale.edu/news/250811/...

📥 PEDL will hold a 1-day workshop for young researchers on Oct 23, 2025, as part of the IGC and the Yale Economic Growth Center “Firms, Trade, and Development” conference on Oct 24-25. All events will take place in person @yaleeconomics.bsky.social. More details: www.theigc.org/call-papers-...

NEW Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper: "Selective Turnout, Voting Policy, and Partisan Bias: Evidence from Multi-Level Data" By Steven Berry, Christian Cox, and Philip Haile: cowles.yale.edu/research/cfd...

Join us in welcoming Leah Boustan to Yale! She joins as a Professor of Economics and Director of the Economic History Program at @yaleegc.bsky.social. Learn more about her background and research in Yale EGC's latest Faculty Spotlight: egc.yale.edu/research/lea...

"This paper studies the semiparametric estimation and inference of integral functionals on submanifolds, which arise naturally in a variety of econometric settings." NEW Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper by Xiaohong Chen & Wayne Yuan Gao: cowles.yale.edu/research/cfd...

📊 Using a novel method of linking US Census records across time, new EGC affiliate Leah Boustan traces immigrants’ economic and cultural trajectories – confronting several prevailing myths about immigration in the process. 📚 Read the latest EGC Affiliate Spotlight: egc.yale.edu/research/lea...

🌎 Immigration indisputably shapes economic growth and development in the United States. But today, immigration’s effects on the US economy is one of the most polarizing topics in American politics.

"We can analyze how the world would look in a state in which the U.S. decided to unilaterally impose tariffs on all countries relative to a baseline without those tariffs." New Discussion Paper by Lorenzo Caliendo, Samuel Kortum, & Fernando Parro: cowles.yale.edu/research/cfd...

How do people update their views when they suspect news coverage to be tainted by manipulation? In the latest Econometrica, Ricardo Alonso & Gerard Padró I Miquel propose a model on the competitive capture of public opinion. Read the full article here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.3982/...

NEW in Econometrica, Charles Hodgson and Gregory Lewis develop and estimate a model of consumer search with spatial learning. Read the full article here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.3982/...

How do people update their views when they suspect news coverage to be tainted by manipulation? In the latest Econometrica, Ricardo Alonso & Gerard Padró I Miquel propose a model on the competitive capture of public opinion. Read the full article here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.3982/...

NEW in Econometrica, Charles Hodgson and Gregory Lewis develop and estimate a model of consumer search with spatial learning. Read the full article here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.3982/...

🗣️ How do language barriers affect international development? 🌏 New research by Amit Khandelwal (@yaleeconomics.bsky.social) and coauthors shows how language training can maximize the benefits of foreign direct investment for LMICs. 📑 Read the EGC research summary: egc.yale.edu/research/can...

Join us in congratulating Steven Berry (@steveberry.bsky.social), who was recently appointed the Sterling Professor of Economics—the highest academic honor a Yale professor can receive. Berry joined Yale in 1988 and is the inaugural director of the Yale Tobin Center: news.yale.edu/2025/07/22/b...

"This paper examines how high school specialization shapes college investment decisions and their subsequent returns through dynamic complementarities." NEW Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper by John Eric Humphries, Juanna Schrøter Joensen, & Gregory Veramendi: cowles.yale.edu/research/cfd...

Hospitals are gobbling up physician practices—and health care prices are rising as a result. New research in @nber.org shows that vertical mergers between hospitals & physician practices are driving up physician & hospital prices. Read the Tobin Center Policy Brief: tobin.yale.edu/research/hos...

"In this paper, we provide an equilibrium treatment of how data-intensive mechanisms for selling advertising impact product prices and welfare both on and off the platform." NEW in @reveconstudies.bsky.social by Dirk Bergemann, Alessandro Bonatti, and Nicholas Wu: academic.oup.com/restud/artic...

"We develop and quantify a novel growth theory in which economic activity endogenously shifts from material production to quality improvements." NEW in @nber.org by Philippe Aghion, Timo Boppart, Michael Peters, Matthew Schwartzman, and Fabrizio Zilibotti: nber.org/papers/w33634

How should authorities that care about match quality and diversity allocate resources in the face of uncertainty? NEW in @nber.org by Oğuzhan Çelebi and Joel Flynn: www.nber.org/papers/w34035

"This article identifies which investments in school facilities help students and which are valued by homeowners." NEW in @qjeharvard.bsky.social by Barbara Biasi, Julien Lafortune, and David Schönholzer: academic.oup.com/qje/article/...

Welcome to Yale, Janet Currie! More about Professor Currie: economics.yale.edu/news/250709/... A fact sheet from the Tobin Center on her brand new paper about life expectancy in California: tobin.yale.edu/research/lif...

"In this paper, we provide an equilibrium treatment of how data-intensive mechanisms for selling advertising impact product prices and welfare both on and off the platform." NEW in @reveconstudies.bsky.social by Dirk Bergemann, Alessandro Bonatti, and Nicholas Wu: academic.oup.com/restud/artic...

The Cowles Foundation's postdoctoral program helps advance research while building networks and expertise that will serve postdocs throughout their careers. Learn more about our newly minted faculty members: economics.yale.edu/news/250630/...

📅 The Climate, Energy and Growth Initiative at EGC hosted the workshop along with the Yale Tobin Center for Economic Policy (@yaleeconomics.bsky.social) and Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY). 📚 Read the event recap: egc.yale.edu/news/250701/...

What will it take to create competitive digital markets?‌ In a new book, Fiona Scott Morton offers a practical guide on how to open digital markets to competition through regulatory and judicial tools: tobin.yale.edu/news/250605/...

"This paper studies how innovation reacts to foreign political risk and shapes its economic consequences." NEW in NBER by Joel P. Flynn, Antoine B. Levy, Jacob Moscona, and Mai Wo: nber.org/papers/w33964

🆕 Podcast: What does the future hold for small farms in Africa? On Development Dialogues w/ @voxdev.bsky.social, guests Gérardine Mukeshimana (@ifad.org) @christopher-udry.bsky.social (Northwestern) & Mark Rosenzweig (@yaleeconomics.bsky.social)‬ discuss. 🎧 Listen: egc.yale.edu/news/250618/...

"We develop and quantify a novel growth theory in which economic activity endogenously shifts from material production to quality improvements." NEW in NBER by Philippe Aghion, Timo Boppart, Michael Peters, Matthew Schwartzman, & Fabrizio Zilibotti: nber.org/papers/w33634

📃 A new EGC Discussion Paper by @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social (@yaleeconomics.bsky.social) & coauthors examines systems for identifying recipients of benefit transfers and studies how their cost-effectiveness varies with the scale and scope of the program. 📚 Read the paper: egc.yale.edu/research/mob...

The Department is proud to recognize this year’s recipients of the Merton J. Peck Prize for distinction and excellence in undergraduate teaching: Ana Cecilia Fieler, John Eric Humphries, John Geanakoplos, Benjamin Polak, and Rebecca Toseland: economics.yale.edu/news/250616/...