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Jul 31, 2024

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The Changing Nature of Entrepreneurship in the United States: Evidence from Shopify

This paper uses data from Shopify to provide insight into the growing space of entrepreneurs using online platforms in the United States. It describes how Shopify is facilitating new entrants to business, their successes, and their challenges.

Lisa Abraham, Gabriel W. Hassler, Benjamin K. Master, Brian Phillips

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Dec 28, 2023

From LATE to ATE: A Bayesian Approach

Develops a Bayesian model that produces a posterior distribution of the marginal treatment effect function.

Isaac M. Opper

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Nov 21, 2023

Research, Interrupted: Addressing Practical and Methodological Challenges Under Turbulent Conditions

Researchers examine the COVID-19 pandemic as one salient case of a large-scale disruption to schooling that exemplifies the challenges faced by researchers evaluating education interventions and policies under turbulent conditions.

Susan Bush-Mecenas, Jonathan Schweig, Megan Kuhfeld, Louis T. Mariano, Melissa Kay Diliberti

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Apr 21, 2023

Exploring Intergenerational Wealth Transfer Dynamics with Agent-Based Models

Introduces a modeling environment that could be used for testing the long run impacts of policy interventions on differences between white and Black wealth.

Osonde A. Osoba, Jonathan W. Welburn, Jonathan Lamb, Pedro Nascimento de Lima, Krishna B. Kumar

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Jan 3, 2023

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The Effects of Public Sector Retirement Plan Reform on Workforce Retention: Evidence from Teachers in Three States

In this working paper, the authors examine the impact of recent changes in public sector retirement plans on career retention decisions of public sector workers by using administrative personnel data to predict teachers' incentives to stay or leave.

Beth J. Asch, David Knapp, Michael G. Mattock

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Jun 8, 2022

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Measuring School Poverty Matters, but How Should We Measure It? Comparing Results of Survey Analyses Conducted Using Various Measures of School Poverty

Explores the relationship between school-level free or reduced-price lunch rates and alternative measures of school and community poverty and how these measures compare to one another as explanatory variables and covariates in analyses.

Sy Doan, Melissa Kay Diliberti, David Grant

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Dec 14, 2021

Gender, Grades, and College Major During the Dot-Com Crash

Investigates the mechanism behind the gender difference in reaction to the dot-com crash using administrative data on students from a four-year public university.

Avery Calkins

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Nov 17, 2021

When Sarah Meets Lawrence: The Effect of Coeducation on Women's Major Choices

Leverages variation in the timing of women's colleges' transitions to coeducation to study how exposure to a gendered social environment affects women's human capital investments.

Avery Calkins, Ariel J. Binder, Dana Shaat, Brenden Timpe

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Nov 1, 2021

Understanding the Demographics of the Opioid Overdose Death Crisis

Examines overdose trends during the opioid crisis relative to historical disparities and evaluate the role of OxyContin's launch in explaining these trends.

David Powell

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Oct 11, 2021

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Standardized Regulatory Impact Assessment (SRIA) of the Proposed California Regulation for Heat Illness Prevention in Indoor Places of Employment

Occupational heat exposure can result in lost productivity, illness, injury, and death. This report is a standardized regulatory impact assessment for the California Department of Industrial Relations' indoor heat illness prevention regulation.

David Metz, Shannon Prier, Benjamin M. Miller

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Jul 9, 2021

The Labor Supply Consequences of the Opioid Crisis

Uses the introduction of OxyContin and geographic variation in its launch to study the labor supply consequences of the opioid crisis.

David Powell

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Apr 13, 2021

Benchmarking Workforce Diversity in the Travel/Hospitality Industry in California

Examines diversity within the travel/hospitality industry in California.

Lisa Abraham, Matthew D. Baird, Nicholas Broten

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The Math Equity Equation

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Getting to Know Military Caregivers and Their Needs

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Assessing and Articulating the Wider Benefits of Research

Improving Access to Early Childhood Education

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The Changing Nature of Entrepreneurship in the United States: Evidence from Shopify

From LATE to ATE: A Bayesian Approach

Research, Interrupted: Addressing Practical and Methodological Challenges Under Turbulent Conditions

Exploring Intergenerational Wealth Transfer Dynamics with Agent-Based Models

The Effects of Public Sector Retirement Plan Reform on Workforce Retention: Evidence from Teachers in Three States

Measuring School Poverty Matters, but How Should We Measure It? Comparing Results of Survey Analyses Conducted Using Various Measures of School Poverty

Gender, Grades, and College Major During the Dot-Com Crash

When Sarah Meets Lawrence: The Effect of Coeducation on Women's Major Choices

Understanding the Demographics of the Opioid Overdose Death Crisis

Standardized Regulatory Impact Assessment (SRIA) of the Proposed California Regulation for Heat Illness Prevention in Indoor Places of Employment

The Labor Supply Consequences of the Opioid Crisis

Benchmarking Workforce Diversity in the Travel/Hospitality Industry in California

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Estimating Policy Effects using Lagged Outcome Values to Impute Counterfactuals

When a Doctor Falls from the Sky: The Impact of Easing Doctor Supply Constraints on Mortality

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Preparing the Workforce for AI: Insights for Civilian and Military Leaders

China's Use of Generative AI and Social Bots

A Year After the October 7 Start of the Israel-Hamas Conflict: Q&A with RAND Experts

October 7th and the Limits of Diplomacy

The Math Equity Equation

The Policy Currents Podcast

Getting to Know Military Caregivers and Their Needs

Managing Escalation in Crisis and War

Assessing and Articulating the Wider Benefits of Research

Improving Access to Early Childhood Education

Working Paper Series

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The Changing Nature of Entrepreneurship in the United States: Evidence from Shopify

From LATE to ATE: A Bayesian Approach

Research, Interrupted: Addressing Practical and Methodological Challenges Under Turbulent Conditions

Exploring Intergenerational Wealth Transfer Dynamics with Agent-Based Models

The Effects of Public Sector Retirement Plan Reform on Workforce Retention: Evidence from Teachers in Three States

Measuring School Poverty Matters, but How Should We Measure It? Comparing Results of Survey Analyses Conducted Using Various Measures of School Poverty

Gender, Grades, and College Major During the Dot-Com Crash

When Sarah Meets Lawrence: The Effect of Coeducation on Women's Major Choices

Understanding the Demographics of the Opioid Overdose Death Crisis

Standardized Regulatory Impact Assessment (SRIA) of the Proposed California Regulation for Heat Illness Prevention in Indoor Places of Employment

The Labor Supply Consequences of the Opioid Crisis

Benchmarking Workforce Diversity in the Travel/Hospitality Industry in California

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