Economic Brief

How has college tuition trended recently, and why?

Evidence from Hurricane Irma suggests that weather events can significantly impact mortgage defaults.

The effects of classifying neighborhoods by riskiness of home lending in the 1930s may still have modest effects on interest rates and fees today.

Economic policy uncertainty rises significantly leading up to an election and stays elevated for a couple months after the election is over.

What are early studies suggesting about how AI may impact labor productivity?

Demographic factors can simultaneously work in opposite directions when it comes to r*.

Among women born 1920-1949, family income is higher for those born in more recent years at almost every age. Since 1949, however, this trend has slowed considerably.

Negative impacts seem to be more muted than expected, and some firms say RTO increased employment.

Most native U.S. workers seem to benefit from having immigrant coworkers.

Not everyone continues to progress into better-paying jobs.