An approach to identifying the causal effects of school assignment on future outcomes that accounts for strategic misreporting, from Marinho Bertanha, Margaux Luflade, and Ismael Mourifié nber.org/papers/w32434

Among the most individualistic countries in the world, the US is uniquely particularistic in its moral values, a distinctive culture rooted in America's frontier history, from Samuel Bazzi, Martin Fiszbein, and Maximiliano Garcia nber.org/papers/w32433

Many officers at risk of on-duty misconduct have elevated off-duty risk too, suggesting a potential link between accountability and officer wellness, from Greg Stoddard, Dylan J. Fitzpatrick, and Jens Ludwig nber.org/papers/w32432

A large universal cash transfer in Liberia and Malawi improved food security for 1.5–2 years, driven by increased farm investment and production, from Shilpa Aggarwal, Aker, Dahyeon Jeong, Naresh Kumar, David Sungho Park, Jon Robinson, and Alan Spearot nber.org/papers/w32431

Exploring how the emergence of ChatGPT and other forms of artificial intelligence will affect the skill premium, from David E. Bloom, Klaus Prettner, Jamel Saadaoui, and Mario Veruete nber.org/papers/w32430

In Taiwan, disadvantaged minorities lower student effort, parental investments, and teacher engagement in classrooms to which they are randomly assigned, and this lowers student test scores, from @adegendre, Krzysztof Karbownik, Nicolas Salamanca, and Yves Zenou nber.org/papers/w32429

Elementary school achievement levels predict criminal justice involvement, but racial achievement gaps explain only part of subsequent racial disparities in criminal justice involvement, from Andrew Jordan, @ezrakarger, and Derek Neal nber.org/papers/w32428

Access to free contraception did not reduce the birth rate in Burkina Faso, suggesting that the cost of contraception is not a key reason for high fertility rates, from Pascaline Dupas, Seema Jayachandran, Adriana Lleras-Muney, and Pauline Rossi nber.org/papers/w32427

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Why southern Brazilian cities are better than northern cities at poverty reductions, from Radu Barza, Edward L. Glaeser, César A. Hidalgo, and Martina Viarengo nber.org/papers/w32426

Identifying ordered treatment effects with a binary instrument, focusing on the effect of moving from the treatment’s minimum to maximum intensity, from Vedant Vohra and Jacob Goldin nber.org/papers/w32425

Characterizing the optimal experimentation policy when exploration and exploitation are disentangled in the case of Poisson bandits, allowing for general news structures, from Alessandro Lizzeri, Eran Shmaya, and @lyariv nber.org/papers/w32424

Psychotherapy improves economic participation for people experiencing anxiety and depression in low-and middle-income countries, from Lund, Kate Orkin, Witte, Walker, Davies, Johannes Haushofer, Murray, Bass, Murray, Tol, and Patel nber.org/papers/w32423

How to extract theoretical insights from machine learning algorithms, from 𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐡𝐢𝐥 𝐌𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 and Ashesh Rambachan nber.org/papers/w32422

Surveying the recent literature in economics measuring what is on top of people's minds using open-ended questions and providing applications across different fields of economics, from Ingar Haaland, @cp_roth, Stefanie Stantcheva, and Johannes Wohlfart nber.org/papers/w32421

Analyzing workers' access to and use of between-establishment job transitions within firms, and estimating the effect on earnings of greater access to transition opportunities, from Jeronimo Carballo, Richard K. Mansfield, and Charles Adam Pfander nber.org/papers/w32420

Some interdisciplinary ideas from the Circular Economy may be useful for economists to analyze public policy regarding waste disposal, repair, reuse, and recycling, from Don Fullerton nber.org/papers/w32419

Educational videos on police alternatives may reduce public reliance on police for nonviolent issues, allowing for better responses to violent incidents, from @bocar_a, Meghna Baskar, and Rei Mariman nber.org/papers/w32418

Developing a method for identification of monetary policy shocks by applying natural language processing techniques to Federal Reserve documents, from S. Borağan Aruoba and Thomas Drechsel nber.org/papers/w32417

Artificial intelligence may boost average productivity, but it also may replace many workers and degrade job quality for those who remain employed, from Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson nber.org/papers/w32416