18 Oct 2023 Green Vote Fades Where Import Competition Scares People Bosetti and Colantone find that individuals who live in areas more exposed to international trade show less support for environmentalist parties and are more skeptical about climate change
10 Oct 2023 Job Loss in the Family Linked to Miscarriage and Stillbirth Alessandro Di Nallo and Selin Koksal, in a study on the UK, find that when a pregnant woman or her partner lose their job, the risk of pregnancy loss doubles
11 Oct 2023 Farmer Wants a Wife Is More Real Than You Think A paper by Michal Gulczynski finds that men tend to outnumber women in rural areas
28 Sep 2023 Understand Social Media, and You Won't Be Harmed by Them Luca Braghieri was granted funding by the European Research Council to measure the effects of social media and mitigate their downsides
27 Sep 2023 How Honesty Drain Impoverishes Places Where Rule Abiding is Low Honest people tend to migrate towards honest areas, depriving their places of origin of human capital, according to research by Massimo Anelli. With detrimental effects on productivity, growth, and the quality of politicians
13 Sep 2023 Income Inequalities Within the Aztec Empire Eased the Way of the Conquistadores Guido Alfani reconstructs economic relationships in precolumbian Mexico, showing that Aztec rulers were ruthless exploiters