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Development Economics, Political Economy, Public Economics

Effects of a large-scale social media advertising campaign on holiday travel and COVID-19 infections: a cluster randomized controlled trial

Nature Medicine
Emily Breza, Fatima Cody Stanford, Marcela Alsan, Burak Alsan, Abhijit Banerjee, Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Esther Duflo, Sarah Eichmeyer, Traci Glushko, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Kelly Holland, Emily Hoppe, Mohit Karnani, Sarah Liegl, Tristan Loisel, Lucy Ogbu-Nwobodo, Benjamin A. Olken, Carlos Torres, Pierre-Luc Vautrey, Erica Warner, Susan Wootton
August 2021
Development Economics

Effects of a large-scale social media advertising campaign on holiday travel and COVID-19 infections: a cluster randomized controlled trial

Emily Breza, Fatima Cody Stanford, Marcella Alsan, Burak Alsan, Abhijit Banerjee, Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Esther Duflo, Sarah Eichmeyer, Traci Glushko, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Kelly Holland, Emily Hoppe, Mohit Karnani, Sarah Liegl, Tristan Loisel, Lucy Ogbu-Nwobodo, Benjamin A. Olken, Carlos Torres, Pierre-Luc Vautrey, Erica T. Warner, and Susan Wootton
August 2021
International Economics, Environmental Economics, Development Economics

The Role of Trade in Economic Development

Handbook of International Economics (Volume 5), Gita Gopinath, Elhanan Helpman, Kenneth Rogoff, eds, pp 1-59
Dave Donaldson, David Atkin
August 2021
QJE

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Behavioral Economics, Development Economics, Health Economics

The Economic Consequences of Increasing Sleep among the Urban Poor

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 136(3), 1887-1941
Pedro Bessone, Gautam Rao, Frank Schilbach, Heather Schofield, Mattie Toma
August 2021
Macroeconomics

Monetary Policy in Times of Structural Reallocation

Veronia Guerrieri, Guido Lorenzoni, Ludwig Straub, Iván Werning
August 2021
Journal of Political Economy
Economic Theory, Industrial Organization

Search, Information, and Prices

Journal of Political Economy 129, 2275-2319
Dirk Bergemann, Benjamin Brooks and Stephen Morris
August 2021
Development Economics

Effects of a large-scale social media advertising campaign on holiday travel and COVID-19 infections: a cluster randomized controlled trial

Nature Medicine
Burak Alsan, Marcella Alsan, Abhijit Banerjee, Emily Breza, Fatima Cody Stanford, Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Esther Duflo, Sarah Eichmeyer, Traci Glushko, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Kelly Holland, Emily Hoppe, Mohit Karnani, Sarah Liegl, Tristan Loisel, Lucy Ogbu-Nwobodo, Benjamin A. Olken, Carlos Torres, Pierre-Luc Vautrey, Erica T. Warner, Susan Wootton
August 2021
International Economics, Environmental Economics, Development Economics

Persistence and Path Dependence: A Primer

Regional Science and Urban Economics (special issue on “Urban Economics and History”), 94
Dave Donaldson, Treb Allen
August 2021

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Slides

Confidence and the Propagation of Demand Shocks

The Review of Economic Studies, forthcoming
George-Marios Angeletos, Chen Lian
July 2021
Mathematics and Financial Economics
Economic Theory, Financial Economics

Systemic Credit Freezes in Financial Lending Networks

Mathematics and Financial Economics, 15, pp. 185–232.
Daron Acemoglu, Asuman Ozdaglar, James Siderius, Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi
July 2021
Development Economics

Effect of Physician-Delivered COVID-19 Public Health Messages and Messages Acknowledging Racial Inequity on Black and White Adults’ Knowledge, Beliefs, and Practices Related to COVID-19

JAMA Network Open
Marcella Alsan, Abhijit Banerjee, Emily Breza, Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Fatima Cody Stanford, Esther Duflo, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Sarah Eichmeyer, Mohit Karnani, Tristan Loisel, , Lucy Ogbu-Nwobodo, Benjamin A. Olken, Carlos Torres,Pierre-Luc Vautrey, Erica Warner
July 2021
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Econometrics, Labor Economics

Uber versus Taxi: A Driver's Eye View

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 13(3), 1–37
Joshua D. Angrist, Sydnee Caldwell, Jonathan V. Hall
July 2021
Econometrica
Econometrics

Optimal Decision Rules for Weak GMM

Econometrica, Vol 90(2), pp. 715-48
Anna Mikusheva, Isaiah Andrews
July 2021
Health Economics, Public Economics

What Drives Prescription Opioid Abuse? Evidence from Migration

Amy Finkelstein, Matthew Gentzkow, Dean Li and Heidi Williams
July 2021
Health Economics, Public Economics

Beyond Causality: Additional Benefits of Randomized Controlled Trials for Improving Health Care Delivery

Marcella Alsan and Amy Finkelstein
July 2021
Development Economics

Effect of Physician-Delivered COVID-19 Public Health Messages and Messages Acknowledging Racial Inequity on Black and White Adults’ Knowledge, Beliefs, and Practices Related to COVID-19

Carlos Torres, Lucy Ogbu-Nwobodo, Marcella Alsan, Fatima Cody Stanford, Abhijit Banerjee, Emily Breza, Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Esther Duflo, Sarah Eichmeyer, Mohit Karnani, Tristan Loisel, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Benjamin A. Olken, Pierre-Luc Vautrey, and Erica Warner
July 2021
Industrial Organization

Facilitating Transmission Expansion to Support Efficient Decarbonization of the Electricity Sector

Economics of Energy and Environmental Policy, 2021, 10(2) 57-90
Paul Joskow
June 2021

Wall Street and Silicon Valley: a Delicate Interaction

The Review of Economic Studies, forthcoming
George-Marios Angeletos, Guido Lorenzoni, Alessandro Pavan
June 2021