We estimate the long-run effects of the 1930s Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC)
redlining maps on census tract-level measures of socioeconomic status and economic …

We show how data from online social networking services can help researchers better
understand the effects of social interactions on economic decision making. We combine …

We study the relationship between homebuyers' beliefs about future house price changes
and their mortgage leverage choices. Whether more pessimistic homebuyers choose higher …

During the first seven months of the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 175,000 crowdfunding
campaigns were established in the US for coronavirus-related needs using the platform …

We use 130 years of data on historical migrations to the US to show a causal effect of the
ancestry composition of US counties on foreign direct investment (FDI) sent and received by …

The literature on intergenerational income mobility uses a diverse set of measures and there
is limited knowledge about whether these measures provide similar information and yield …

Using confidential establishment-level data from the US Census Bureau's Longitudinal
Business Database, this paper documents how local shocks propagate across US regions …

Identifying the effects of “flights to safety” on asset prices using pure time-series methods is
difficult because crises are infrequent. We develop a new cross-sectional identification …

I provide a typology of social capital, breaking it down into seven more fundamental forms of
capital: information capital, brokerage capital, coordination and leadership capital, bridging …

This research investigates the impact of social networks on developing economic
uncertainty spillover networks. The study constructs an inter-provincial Chinese economic …