One of my favourite papers from this year: A new global dataset measuring local government corruption. Here's the breakdown and how to access it:

Top 40 Websites for Free Paper Download General Research 1. ResearchGate 2. academiaedu 3. CORE 4. Semantic Scholar 5. arXiv.org 6. SSRN 7. JSTOR 8. Springer Open 9. DOAJ 10. ScienceOpen 11. paperpanda9 12. BASE 13. ERIC 14. Citationsy Medical and

Structural trends: a continuing story

#JustPublished Is AI a key driving force for Chinese total factor productivity growth? Mechanistic analysis of employment, supply chain, and information asymmetry #AI #China #Tech #Economics #Growth #Labour by Ruifeng Xu(Beijing), Frank M. Song(Wuhan University) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The median household income necessary to purchase the median priced home for sale in the US ($123k) is now 56% higher than the current median household income ($79k). This is the most unaffordable housing market in history. Video: youtube.com/watch?v=gBhDKF…

Over the last 40 years, College Tuition and Fees in the US have increased by over 700% (8x) while overall Consumer Prices (US CPI) are up 199% (3x).

Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller said policymakers should cut interest rates this month to support a labor market that is showing signs of weakness bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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For the past four years I’ve been repeating the mantra that we should view TWFE as an estimation method that controls for unit FEs and time FEs, and not as a particular model, in the context of intervention analysis — staggered or not.