14 Jul 2023 Can Employers' Market Power Harm Workers' Health? Tito Boeri was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant to study the conditions that limit workers' job mobility, leading to a monopsony situation with negative effects on wages and working conditions
02 Aug 2023 Opioids Addiction Starts at the ER One out of 1,400 US veterans who are prescribed opioids at an emergency room will eventually die of overdose. Two papers by Sarah Eichmeyer and Jonathan Zhang assess the risks of becoming an addict and worse.
30 Aug 2023 Time Is not Money for Startuppers. That's Why They Go for It A paper by Cedric Gutierrez and others looks at how entrepreneurs value costs and benefits of investing their time, with seemingly counterintuitive results
19 Jul 2023 Why US States Don't Adopt a Bondholder Friendly Bankruptcy Law Stefano Rossi proves that municipal bankruptcy law lowers bond spreads by 8.5 basis points and increases hospital investments by 24.5%. Political opposition and judicial inefficiency are among the reasons that prevent its universal ratification
06 Jul 2023 The Legal Challenges Surrounding Sanctions on Russia Viktoriia Lapa and Paola Mariani report on a BLEST workshop
12 Jul 2023 The Hard Life of Poorly Educated Women with Children After a Divorce Women who often have a great financial need to form a new union with a second earner are also the least likely to achieve that, according to an analysis of the US by Nicoletta Balbo and Alessandro Di Nallo