Japanese firms’ compliance programs after being informed they are potentially engaging in illegal bid-rigging, from Kei Kawai and Jun Nakabayashi nber.org/papers/w32347

Equally educated people are healthier if they live in more educated areas; but not due to sorting, health-related amenities, or pollution but largely to differences in attitudes towards smoking, from Jacob Mullins Bor, @cutler_econ, Glaeser, and Ljubica (LJ) Ristovska nber.org/papers/w32346

Changes in labor force participation from elimination of a work requirement in a tax credit for parents of young children, from Jacob Goldin, @tatianahomonoff, Neel A. Lal, Ithai Lurie, and Katherine Michelmore nber.org/papers/w32343

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New data demonstrate that in the Gilded Age and Roaring 20s bank failures often forced firms that borrowed from banks out of business, from Gary Richardson, Marco Del Angel, and Michael Gou nber.org/papers/w32345

Evaluating the consequences, determinants, and trade-offs associated with discretion in high-stakes decisions assessing bank safety and soundness, from Prof Sumit Agarwal, Bernardo C. Morais, Amit Seru, and Kelly Shue nber.org/papers/w32344

The effects of 14 social movements since 2017 in the US on online interest, policy views and vote intentions: most effects are precise null, except for the Black Lives Matter protests, from Amory Gethin and Vincent Pons nber.org/papers/w32342

A theory of macroprudential regulation in a macroeconomic model of self-fulfilling bank runs, from Manuel Amador and @javierbianchi7 nber.org/papers/w32341

The pay gap between older and younger workers has widened because the larger supply of older workers due to population aging has crowded out younger workers from higher-paying jobs, from N. B. and Matteo Paradisi nber.org/papers/w32340

Examining mobile app commissions paid by app developers to a monopolist device maker/app store operator, from Joshua Gans nber.org/papers/w32339

Is the STAR experiment informative about the scalability of class-size interventions? An exposition of the opportunities and perils, karun adusumilli, Francesco Agostinelli, and Emilio Borghesan nber.org/papers/w32338

Ill-being no longer follows a hump but improves with age due to a worsening mental health crisis of the young, from @d_blanchflower, Alex Bryson, and Xiaowei Xu nber.org/papers/w32337

Marketing cancer drugs to physicians increases prescribing without improving mortality, from @citizeness, Michael Daly, and Jing Li 李婧 nber.org/papers/w32336

A means of studying tax distortions and reforms accurately and comprehensively, from Johannes Brumm, @kotlikoff, and Christopher Krause nber.org/papers/w32335

A descriptive analysis of religious worship attendance in the US using smartphone data for over 2 million Americans in 2019, from Devin Pope nber.org/papers/w32334

Using wartime destruction as an exogenous source of variation, evidence is found of neighborhood effects, which make a substantial contribution to patterns of spatial sorting, from Stephen Redding and Daniel M. Sturm nber.org/papers/w32333

Credit card autopay is sticky and affects consumer payment behavior. Moving from 0 to 100 percent autopay enrollment increases minimum payments by 20 to 29 percentage points, doubling the baseline rate, from Jialan Wang nber.org/papers/w32332

Paying both healthcare premiums and medical costs through health savings accounts makes insurance choices more consistent, from Jonathan Gruber, Mengyun M. Lin, @ecsliuhm, and Junjian Yi nber.org/papers/w32331

While US monetary policy shocks act as financial shocks increasing risk premia in emerging markets, a shock to US dollar does not generate the same effect, from José I. Cristi, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Mariana Sans, and D. Filiz Unsal nber.org/papers/w32330

Emerging markets’ resilience to recent Federal Reserve hikes is of these markets’ own making, via better policies and low dollar-denominated debt, from Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and D. Filiz Unsal nber.org/papers/w32329