Long Term Care and Cognitive Impairment in Spain

How does a person’s own learning experience affect their ability to learn from others? We conduct a field experiment on chlorination in Pakistan, where randomized “learning-arm” households use a tool to track their children’s diarrhea before and after chlorine distribution. Learning-arm households with learning-arm neighbors chlorinate significantly more one year after the withdrawal of the…

The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Greg Kaplan Disclosure Statement Greg Kaplan Current as of 24 June 2026 Current primary appointment: • Alvin H. Baum Professor, Kenneth C. Griffen Department of Economics and the College, University of Chicago…

We thank Aisha Alsayegh, Jared Fung, Tam Le, Bingbin Li, Duong Luu, Roldan Enamorado and Nguyen Hai Thanh for excellent research assistance and Mr. Nguyen Viet Phong at the General Statistics Office Vietnam and Kyle Butts, Edmund Malesky, David McKenzie, and Jeff Zabel for helpful discussions. McCaig and McMillan thank the Private Enterprise in Low-Income…

ECB publishes indicative operational calendars for 2028

Economics Jul 13, 2026 Desmond Lachman Japan’s deepening currency and bond-market woes should be a wake-up call for other countries that appear to be on unsustainable fiscal paths, not least the United States, as well as France, Italy, and the United Kingdom….

ING’s Frantisek Taborsky notes that escalating US-Iran tensions are driving risk-off sentiment, overshadowing a light Central and Eastern Europe data calendar. The National Bank of Poland (NBP) may still consider cuts, while Turkey’s central bank is expected to hold at 37% and Hungary to trim rates to 5.75%. ING sees EUR/HUF peaking around current levels…