Recent publications
Department of Economics
College Loans and Human Capital Investment
Chao Fu, Hsuan-Chih (Luke) Lin, and Atsuko Tanaka, International Economic Review
October 2026
Smooth Operator? Managing Electric Vehicle Integration in Constrained Distribution Networks
David Rapson and Blake Shaffer, Energy Journal
Online September 2026
Heterogeneous (Mis)Perceptions of Energy Costs: Implications for Measurement and Policy Design
Sébastien Houde and Erica Myers, Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics
August 2026
Scalable Demand and Markups
Enghin Atalay, Erika Frost, Alan Sorensen, Christopher Sullivan, and Wanjia Zhu, Journal of Political Economy
August 2026
Distributed Backup Power and the Changing Economics of Grid Reliability
Sarah Johnston, Energy Journal
Online July 2026
On Measuring the Welfare Cost of Inflation
Apostolos Serletis and Libo Xu, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking
June 2026
AI-assisted teams outperform AI-led teams but not human-only teams in assessing research reproducibility
Abel Brodeur, David Valenta, Alexandru Marcoci, et al. (including Lucija Muehlenbachs and Stefan Staubli), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
June 2026
Reproducibility and robustness of economics and political science research
Abel Brodeur, Derek Mikola, Nikolai Cook, et al. (including Leonard Goff, Lucija Muehlenbachs, and Stefan Staubli), Nature
April 2026
Aggregate productivity effect of labour and capital market distortions in Canada
Yu Chen and Trevor Tombe, Canadian Journal of Economics
February 2026
The Multigenerational Impact of Children and Childcare Policies
Sencer Karademir, Jean-William Laliberté, and Stefan Staubli, Journal of Labor Economics
January 2026
Moonshot: Public R&D and Growth
Shawn Kantor and Alexander Whalley, American Economic Review
September 2025
Designing Disability Insurance Reforms: Tightening Eligibility Rules or Reducing Benefits?
Andreas Haller, Stefan Staubli, Josef Zweimüller, Econometrica
January 2024
Salience and Taxation with Imperfect Competition
Kory Kroft, Jean-William Laliberté, René Leal-Vizcaíno, and Matthew J Notowidigdo, Review of Economic Studies
January 2024
An Axiomatic Model of Persuasion
Alexander M. Jakobsen, Econometrica,
September 2021
Model Selection for Treatment Choice: Penalized Welfare Maximization
Eric Mbakop and Max Tabord‐Meehan, Econometrica
March 2021
Identification and Estimation of Dynamic Games
When Players’ Beliefs Are Not in Equilibrium
Victor Aguirregabiria and Arvind Magesan, Review of Economic Studies
March 2020.
A Model of Complex Contracts
Alexander M. Jakobsen, American Economic Review
May 2020
Research Proximity and Productivity
Long-Term Evidence from Agriculture
Shawn Kantor and Alexander Whalley, Journal of Political Economy
April 2019
Trade, Migration, and Productivity:
A Quantitative Analysis of China
Trevor Tombe and Xiaodong Zhu, American Economic Review
May 2019.