Research

Take a look at the latest research from MIT Economics faculty, including published work and newly-released working papers.

Working Papers

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Sources

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Macroeconomics

Can Deficits Finance Themselves?

Conditionally accepted, Econometrica
George-Marios Angeletos, Chen Lian, Christian Wolf
July 2024
Development Economics

Intergenerational Impacts of Secondary Education: Experimental Evidence from Ghana

Pascaline Dupas, Elizabeth Spelke and Mark Walsh
July 2024
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Books

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Risky Business: Why Insurance Markets Fail and What to Do About It
Health Economics, Public Economics

Risky Business: Why Insurance Markets Fail and What To Do About It

Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein and Ray Fisman
January 2023
Cover of Cooking to Save Your Life with an illustration by Cheyenne Olivier of Abhijit cooking surrounded by others

Cooking to Save Your Life

Abhijit Banerjee
Illustrations by Cheyenne Olivier
November 2021
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Published Papers

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Labor Economics, Macroeconomics

A Task-Based Approach to Inequality

Oxford Open Economics, 3(Supplement_1), pp. i906–i929.
Daron Acemoglu, Pascual Restrepo
July 2024

Automation and the Workforce: A Firm-Level View from the 2019 Annual Business Survey

in Technology, Productivity, and Economic Growth (2024), Susanto Basu, Lucy Eldridge, John Haltiwanger and Erich Strassner, eds., University of Chicago Press.
Daron Acemoglu, Gary W. Anderson, David N. Beede, Cathy Buffington, Eric E. Childress, Emin Dinlersoz, Lucia S. Foster, Nathan Goldschlag, John C. Haltiwanger, Zachary Kroff, Pascual Restrepo, and Nikolas Zolas
June 2024
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Economics Department students and faculty

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Research News

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Michael D Whinston

Michael D Whinston receives the 2024 Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize