Despite an extensive literature on the impacts of a variety of charitable fundraising tech-niques, little is known about whether these activities increase overall giving or merely cause donors to substitute away from other ...

When learning to play a game well, does it help to play against an opponent who makes the same sort of mistakes one tends to make or is it better to play against a procedurally rational algorithm, which never makes mistakes? ...

While there is much concern about the role of race in police use of force, identifying causal effects is difficult. This is in part because of selection, and in part because researchers often observe only interactions ...

Even within the same market, firms vary across a number of dimension--structure, production capacity, market experience, and general core competency. If you go as far as to observe individual managers, you will find resumes ...

In the United States, politicians and the public alike have again sounded the call to raise the federal minimum wage, citing unlivable earnings and high consumer prices due to rising inflation, but would an increase actually ...

Data on initial unemployment claims indicate that Texas lost almost 8% of its nonfarm employment in the last four weeks. Nationally, the 22 million in new unemployment claims in the last four weeks is equivalent to 14.5% ...

The Business-Cycle increased 0.3% from January 2022 to February 2022. The local unemployment rate for February remained the same as in January at 3.7%. Local nonfarm employment in February decreased slightly from January ...

The Business-Cycle Index increased 0.2% from January to February 2024. The local unemployment rate for February 2024 was 3.1%, unchanged from the previous month. February’s local nonfarm employment increased by 0.2% from ...

After rising somewhat in the second half of July, initial unemployment claims in the U.S. have resumed a steady decline, dropping below one million for the week ending on August 8, the lowest level recorded since the week ...

The Business-Cycle Index increased 0.5% from May 2022 to June 2022. The local unemployment rate remained unchanged at 3.2% in June 2022. Local nonfarm employment in June increased by 1% from May and was 2.95% higher than ...