While human trafficking is mostly framed as a macro phenomenon, this does not fully explain how these criminal networks operate. Recognizing that trafficking corridors link specific source and destination localities offers a stronger basis for policy than a purely national approach or isolated interventions.
Earnings inequality among college graduates has grown, and returns to a bachelor’s degree (BA) vary substantially across colleges. We experimentally evaluate a program that shifted high-achieving, low-income students into higher-quality colleges. Students randomly offered a guarantee of four years of tuition and fees at the University of Michigan were 21 percentage points more likely to…
“The strongest argument for claiming benefits earlier goes beyond the traditional break-even analyses.”
Please enable JavaScript if it is disabled in your browser or access the information through the links provided below. July 09, 2026 Federal Reserve announces the leadership and objectives of its task forces to advance the conduct of monetary policy For release at 3:00 p.m. EDT The…
Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CEO and co-founder of Swedish fintech Klarna, gives an interview with CNBC during the company’s initial public offering at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Sept. 10, 2025. Brendan Mcdermid | Reuters Klarna, the Swedish fintech firm best known for its buy now, pay later offerings, said Monday it applied to…
We rely on experts for a lot of our information. By “expert,” I mean someone who is paid for their opinion. Roger Koppl uses this definition in his 2018 book Expert Failure, and I use the same definition in my research, which is based on his book. This definition is useful because it allows us…
Copy Citation Yulia Chikish, Gregory J. Colman, Dhaval M. Dave, Brad R. Humphreys, Zachary Santamaria, and Zachary Winship, “Congestion Pricing and Emergency Medical Service Response: Evidence from New York City,” NBER Working Paper 35414 (2026), https://doi.org/10.3386/w35414. Copy to Clipboard Download Citation
LONDON—In 2016, then-Prime Minister Theresa May marked the first anniversary of the United Kingdom’s Modern Slavery Act with a commentary touting how our research in the UK and Romania had helped uncover “criminal gangs creating twinned towns of modern slavery.” What made our approach unique was the pairing of specific source and destination localities as a single unit of analysis.