Studying transition dynamics of a continuous-time neoclassical production economy with capital accumulation where people face idiosyncratic risk and cannot commit to repay debt, from Dirk Krueger, Fulin Li, and Harald Uhlig nber.org/papers/w32880

Treasury convenience yield and inflation comove positively during the inflationary 1970s–80s, but negatively before WWII and after 2000, from Anna Cieslak, Wenhao Li, and Carolin Pflueger nber.org/papers/w32881

Call for papers: Place-Based Policies and Entrepreneurship. The conference will be held in Cambridge, MA, on December 6, 2024. Submit papers by 11:59pm EDT on October 3, 2024. More information: nber.org/calls-papers-a…

Call for papers: Data Infrastructure for Decarbonizing Transportation. The conference will be held in Cambridge, MA, on March 13-14, 2025. Submit papers by 11:59pm EDT on November 21, 2024. More information: nber.org/calls-papers-a…

How financial risk management is used to manage firm total risk, from René M. Stulz nber.org/papers/w32882

California’s Earned Income Tax Credit appears generous but doesn't boost employment, partly because the minimum wage is so high, from David Neumark and Zeyu Li nber.org/papers/w32883

Changes in default-free yields, not changes in the equity premium, largely explain the stock market price reaction to monetary policy surprises upon Federal Open Market Committee announcements, from Stefan Nagel and Zhengyang Xu nber.org/papers/w32884

On Monday (9/9) the NBER will begin posting on Bluesky (NBER.bsky.social) and Threads (nber_pubs). These platforms will be used to expand our research dissemination efforts. We invite interested individuals to follow these accounts. The same content will be posted across our

Examining gender differences in the social impact and commercial motives for academic entrepreneurship using the National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps program, from April Burrage, Ph.D., Nilanjana Dasgupta, and Ina Ganguli 🇺🇦 🌻🪷 nber.org/papers/w32885

Implementing a field experiment to assess the effect of time-of-use pricing and managed charging on EV charging behavior, from Megan R. Bailey, David P. Brown, Erica Myers, Blake C. Shaffer, and Frank A. Wolak nber.org/papers/w32886

The decision to post bail has important consequences for defendants. It increases the probability of incarceration and the number of days served, from Howard Bodenhorn nber.org/papers/w32887

Deriving a formula for the equilibrium distribution of markups in the search-theoretic model of imperfect competition, from Guido Menzio nber.org/papers/w32888

Auditing job-recommender algorithms used by four Chinese job boards to find gender differences in job recommendations, from Shuo Zhang and Peter J. Kuhn nber.org/papers/w32889

Studying whether and why pensioners move across borders in response to tax rate differentials, from Salla Kalin, Antoine Levy, and Mathilde Muñoz nber.org/papers/w32890

Analysis of 500,000+ births suggests that racial disparities in C-sections are driven by provider discretion rather than risk, preferences, sociodemographics, or provider choice, from Adriana Corredor-Waldron, Princeton CHW, and Molly Schnell nber.org/papers/w32891

Examining student, teacher, and peer perceptions of effort, ability, performance, and self-confidence in Romania’s highly tracked schools, from Ofer Malamud, Andreea Mitrut, Cristian Pop-Eleches, and Miguel Urquiola nber.org/papers/w32892

Introducing an empirical framework for analyzing network competition among airlines, from Zhe Yuan and Panle Jia Barwick nber.org/papers/w32893

Criminal justice contact often ends with a noncarceral conviction. This study develops a quasi-experimental method to study how conviction affect recidivism, from John Eric Humphries, Aurelie Ouss, Kamelia Stavreva, Megan Stevenson, and Winnie van Dijk nber.org/papers/w32894

Better access to mental health and substance use treatment reduces child maltreatment reports, from Mir M. Ali, Thanh T. Lu, Catherine Maclean (@jcmecon.bsky.social), and Angélica Meinhofer nber.org/papers/w32895

Featured in the latest Digest: "Returns to School Spending on Black Students" nber.org/digest/202409/…