Does inflation vary across the income distribution? This article reviews the growing literature
on inflation inequality, describing recent advances and opportunities for further research in …

Leadership positions in the US are disproportionately held by graduates of a few highly
selective private colleges. Could such colleges—which currently have many more students …

Innovation is central to long-run economic growth. This chapter summarizes the state of the
literature on the economics of innovation, highlighting open policy questions. We first …

How does a person's childhood socioeconomic status (SES) influence their chances to
participate and succeed in science? To investigate this question, we use machine-learning …

Can diversity lead to greater research focus on populations underrepresented in science?
Between 1960 and 1990, 76 all-male US universities transitioned to coeducation. Using a …

Economic frictions pervade the founding, financing, growing, and exiting of high-growth
entrepreneurial firms. This chapter considers one friction that currently affects a small, but …

This paper explores whether and to what extent a scientific approach to decision-making
can be a useful tool for hel** entrepreneurs overcome limitations in the commercial …

We study how individual inventors respond to incentives to work on “clean” electricity
technologies. Using natural gas price variation, we estimate output and entry elasticities of …

We explore how socio-economic background shapes academia, collecting the largest
dataset of US academics' backgrounds and research output. Individuals from poorer …

This paper investigates the existence of racial disparities in the dissemination of ideas using
the paper citation network in economics. Exploiting a comprehensive dataset of over …