Parenting decisions are among the most consequential choices that people make
throughout their lives. Starting with the work of pioneers such as Gary Becker, economists …

Many empirical questions in economics and other social sciences depend on causal effects
of programs or policies. In the last two decades, much research has been done on the …

We construct a publicly available atlas of children's outcomes in adulthood by Census tract
using anonymized longitudinal data covering nearly the entire US population. For each tract …

This paper shows that racial composition shocks during the Great Migration (1940–1970)
reduced the gains from growing up in the northern United States for Black families and can …

Energy-efficient technologies offer considerable promise for reducing the financial costs and
environmental damages associated with energy use, but it has long been observed that …

We study whether, how, and why the investment of a firm depends on the investment of other
firms in the same product market. Using an instrumental variable based on the presence of …

This chapter summarizes the recent literature on peer effects in student outcomes at the
elementary, secondary, and post-secondary levels. Linear-in-means models find modest …

Using a high‐stakes field experiment conducted with a financial brokerage, we implement a
novel design to separately identify two channels of social influence in financial decisions …

This article investigates the role of mass media in times of conflict and state-sponsored mass
violence against civilians. We use a unique village-level data set from the Rwandan …

We show that peer firms play an important role in determining corporate capital structures
and financial policies. In large part, firms' financing decisions are responses to the financing …