Editions

1. Changes in Voter Behavior Amidst Electoral Insecurity and Perceived Voter FraudWilliam Gu
2. The Unintended Consequences of Ohio’s Environmental Remediation Law of the Oil and Gas IndustrySamuel Topper
3. The Effect of an Extension in Potential Unemployment Insurance Benefits Duration on Unemployment Duration: Evidence from ItalyPietro Risso
4. Measuring Monetary Policy Uncertainty in IndiaAllesandra Vollmer
5. The Impact of the Abolition of the Army on Costa Rica’s Educational DevelopmentAmir Grunhaus
6. U.S. Public Equity ESG Fund Composite and Parnassus Core Equity Fund: Performance and Factor AttributionKarthik Nemani & Barrett Buhler

1. Professor Ted MiguelGriffin Shufeldt and Dhoha Bareche · Interview
2. Slum Growth in Peruvian DistrictsPulkit Aggarwal
3. Did the Clean Air Act Improve Environmental Justice Disparities?Jared Jageler

1. Do Repeated Weather Shocks Have Long-Run Effects? An Analysis of India’s Famine EraAdithya Raajkumar (Columbia University)
2. Evaluating the Impact of Chinese and World Bank Foreign Aid Projects on Preferences for Democracy in TanzaniaJohanna Edin and Ossian Granit (Stockholm School of Economics)

Professor, researcher and graduate student interviews: Don Moore, Ella Derenoncourt and Nicholas Otis

1. Beyond Damages: Explaining Variation in States’ FDI Loss from Adverse ISDS RulingsConnor M. Brennan (Georgetown University)
2. Combatting Coronavirus Constructively: Determinants of Health Status Outcomes and Inequalities in the European UnionAnnamara Rimmer (University of Cambridge)
3. Variables Impacting Water Demand for Residents of the New York City Housing AuthorityCameron Somerville (University of British Columbia)

Professor, researcher and graduate student interviews: Fernando Hoces De La Guardia, Hyuncheol Bryant Kim and Steven Vogel

1. Measuring the Impact of MiFID II on Information Asymmetries using Microstructure ModelsErik Senn (Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen)

Professor interviews: Andrés Rodríguez-Clare, Emmanuel Saez, David Roland-Holst, Jeeyang Rhee Baum and Meredith Lynn Fowlie

1. The Impact of Knowledge Economy Factors on Total Factor Productivity: Evidence from the Asian LeadersLaure Fleury (Maastricht University, Netherlands)
2. The Impact of the Introduction of the UK National Living Wage on the Employment Probabilities of Low Wage WorkersBrian O’Connor (University of Nottingham, UK)
3. First-degree Price Discrimination and Quality Customisation Under Data Protection RegulationsTao Chen (University College London, UK)
4. Assessing Whether People’s Locations Predict Attitudes Towards a US Federal Minimum Wage IncreaseSaleel Huprikar (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

Professor, researcher and graduate student interviews: Clair Brown, Stephen Pratten, Wei Guo, Mathieu Pedemonte and Zachary Bleemer

1. Curbing or Displacing Deforestation? The Amazon Blacklist PolicyJoão Pedro Vieira (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
2. Intertemporal Relationships between Bid Price and Number of Bids: Evidence from Singapore’s Vehicle Quota SystemLuther Yap (University of Cambridge, UK)
3. Contests with Uncertainty on Success Functions: Theory and ApplicationsAlvaro Enrique Aguirre Moya (London School of Economics, UK)

Professor interviews: David Roland-Holst, Christopher Walters and Gabriel Zucman

1. Subsidizing College TuitionEssay Contest
2. Time Discipline and Southern Railroads: Increased Watch Availability Raising Labor CostsDavid Abraham (University of Chicago, USA)
3. The Sino-African Relationship: An Empirical Study of the Effect of Chinese Foreign Direct Investment on Illicit Financial Flows in AfricaFatima Ezzahra Daif (Yale-NUS College, Singapore)
4. Real Exchange Rate Volatility and Economic Growth: A Panel Data InvestigationFederico Pessina (University of Warwick, UK)

Professor interview: Dmitry Taubinsky

1. The Economic Impact of Refugee ImmigrationEssay Contest
2. Noise Complaints and School Performance: Evidence from New York CityEric Qian (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA)
3. Singapore’s Primary 1 Registration: Redesigning the School Choice MechanismRuru Hoong (Stanford University, USA)
4. Human Capital Investment: An Examination of the Cyclicality of Bachelor’s Degrees Conferred by Field of StudyMark Vandre (University of California, Berkeley, USA)

1. Universal Basic IncomeEssay Contest
2. Sanctioning Russia: A Forecasting Model of Economic Effects Under Alternative Oil Price ScenariosForrest Daugherty (Princeton University, USA)
3. Transitional Communities or Poverty Traps? An Assessment of Slum Residents’ Upward Mobility Potential in Delhi, IndiaDev Flanagan (Boston University, USA)

Professor interview: Alan Auerbach

1. Trump’s Economic PoliciesEssay Contest
2. Does Hiding Criminal Record Affect Labor Market Outcomes? Evidence from “Ban the Box” LawsJin Deng (Nanjing University, China) and Zixin Lambert Li (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
3. An Application of the Phillips Curve to the Indian EconomyShambhavi Tiwari (Columbia University, USA)
4. Macroprudential Policy and Non-Bank Finance: Implications for Commercial Real Estate CreditAidan T. Thornton (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

Professor interview: Stefano DellaVigna

1. Globalization and its Discontents: BrexitEssay Contest
2. Determining Yuan Valuation: An Extension of the IMF External Balance Assessment ApproachShantanu Banerjee (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
3. The Dampener on Urban Development: The Persistence of the Informal Sector in Mexico and its Repercussions on GrowthJinchen Zou (Yale University, USA)
4. The Monetary Policy Effects of Sweden’s Transition Towards a Cashless Society: An Economic AnalysisTherese Dalebrant (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
5. Effects of Board Gender Diversity on Firm Performance and Director Compensation in IndiaChristopher Siantar (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
6. The Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Racial Disparities in Health Care for Working-Age Adults in the United StatesAlesa Zhang (University of California, Berkeley, USA)

Professor interview: Shachar Kariv

1. Corporate Social ResponsibilityEssay Contest
2. Gold, Trust, and Political Attitudes: Evidence from GhanaRoxanne Rahnama (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
3. High Tech Industry and Housing Supply in San Jose, CA: Ex Copia ParumJohn Paraskevopoulos (University of California, Berkeley, USA)

Professor interviews: Ray Hawkins, David Romer and Ted Miguel