National Bureau of Economic Research
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China’s Official Unemployment Rate: An Unusual Outlier or a Lie?
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As a result of mismeasurement, the official unemployment rate series for China is implausible and is an outlier in the distribution of unemployment rates across countries ranked by their stages of development.
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Moving to Opportunity: How Housing Policy Can Disrupt the Persistence of Poverty
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What matters for future economic success is the amount of childhood exposure to better neighborhoods.
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Getting a Job: How Certain Characteristics Do (or Don’t) Influence Receiving a Callback
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How does unemployment duration, age, or holding a low-level “interim” job affect the likelihood of receiving a callback from a potential employer?
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A Better Old Age: How Income Can Improve Later-Life Mental Health
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Researchers show that an increase in Social Security income can significantly improve the elderly’s cognitive functions.
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Stop, Look, and Listen: A Behavioral Approach to Reducing Teen Violence
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A recent study finds that cost-effective behavioral intervention programs reduce crime rates by teaching teens to slow down and reflect before acting.
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Testing the Impact of Non-cognitive Skills on Children’s Future Success
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By studying the impact of the introduction of a universal child care program in Quebec, Baker et al. argue that shocks to the development of children’s non-cognitive skills lead to worse health, higher crime rates, and lower life satisfaction in the long run.
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ABC, It’s as Easy as 1 2 3: Parents as Early Teachers
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New research shows that parental incentives for child development can yield large gains in both cognitive and non-cognitive domains for young children.
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Economic downturns: Bad for your wallet, good for your health?
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A recent study confirms the finding that mortality rates decrease during recessions and that severe recessions produce even larger reductions in mortality rates.
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If You Build It, They Won’t Come: Why Eliminating Food Deserts Won’t Close the Nutrition Gap
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A recent study finds that nutritional differences across socioeconomic groups are not well explained by access to healthy foods.
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Looking at Effects of Tennessee Medicaid Contraction on Adult Hospitalizations
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A new quasi-experimental study sheds light on the mechanism through which Medicaid expansion translates into mortality reduction among newly insured populations.
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Social Skills: The New Employment Requirement?
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Deming theorizes that, as manufacturing and other jobs have become more easily automated, the human ability to empathize and to be an effective “team player” has become more essential.