Research methods

Using four decades of Danish administrative data, we estimate the intergenerational transmission of violent crime victimization.

Using a policy change in Australia during COVID-19, we find that self-control issues significantly predict
early withdrawals from retirement accounts.

We study how the diffusion of online dating platforms has shaped intermarriage patterns by race and education in the United States.

We use counterfactual analysis to evaluate the economic impact of two tax credits for dwelling renovations.

In this paper, we empirically examine how collective bargaining agreements relate to firms' automation decisions and employment dynamics.

We study the housing market response to a national disclosure policy that mandated the prominent display of energy efficiency information at listing.

I prove that, in a simple but general framework, expected pass-through is unchanged by the presence of focal pricing constraints.

Estimating intra-household sharing is crucial to understanding overall inequality. However, expenditure data is almost always at the household level.

AI is often predicted to raise productivity while displacing human work, yet organizational adoption remain uneven and aggregrate effects are mixed.

Are there particular social structures that allow ethnic diversity to coexist with political stability and economic development?

We find evidence that the passage of “DNA laws” streamlining access to forensic DNA technology was a watershed in the exoneration of Black Americans

We hypothesise that structured management practices are a General Purpose Technology that helps firms adapt to unforeseen shocks.

Private car quality information means the sale price reflects the average quality of cars sold and can be lower than the population's average quality.

Globally, gang proliferation is fought mainly through sweeps. This paper examines the causal impact on crime for arrested individuals and their peers.

In this paper, we propose a user-friendly estimator to implement the method of difference-in-differences with ordinal outcomes.

We study how financial markets and, in particular, changes in the price of and access to capital, in shape UK regional growth fortunes.

We study how the diffusion of online dating platforms has shaped intermarriage patterns by race and education in the United States.

This paper revisits the problem of power analysis and sample size calculations in randomised experiments. 

This paper offers practical advice on increasing statistical power in randomised experiments via design, implementation and analysis choices. 

Standard software handles basic sample size calculations, but researchers often oversimplify them and overlook relevant design features.