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Infrastructure, Development and the Marshall Plan

The Marshall Plan, sponsored by the United States between…
Van Patten

Multinationals, Monopsony and the United Fruit Company

The effect of large-scale foreign investments in developing…
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Individual vs. Joint Taxation

How do different income taxation systems -- for instance…
Carrera, Felipe

Cartels and Productivity

Cartels are a common feature in most economies. For instance,…
Ariel Burstein

Immigration and Labor Markets

Economists have been studying the labor-market consequences…
Felipe Goncalves

Racial Bias in Policing

In January 2017, Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions was…
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Digitization in the Film Industry

Technology standards play a central role in a broad array…
McGarry

Quantifying the Cost of Caregiving

The aging of the population brings with it a host of pressing…

The Cost of Bad Parents

Almost three million children in the U.S. have a parent in…
Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn

Learning Dynamics in Social Networks

How do societies learn about the quality of innovations?…