Economic Brief

A new paper finds evidence of causal effects of historical redlining on present-day exposure to environmental and climate risks in six large U.S. cities.

Many students use two-year colleges to determine whether they should go on to a four-year college.

This gap seemingly exists even after controlling for education.

Monetary policy, marriage, college admissions, and discrimination and socioeconomic outcomes were among the topics discussed at our recent conference.

Examining commuting behavior helps show how connected counties are in the Fifth Federal Reserve District.

The lockdowns resulting from COVID-19 provide an opportunity to examine what factors affect the strength of supply chains.

For some underperforming employees, employers might prefer using suspension rather than outright termination.

Pandemic-era unemployment insurance affected recoveries of low-wage job markets and high-wage job markets differently.

Techniques at the frontiers of econometrics were addressed by economists during a recent research conference.

Tariffs, property rights and producing inputs versus buying them: These were among the topics discussed at our recent conference.