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‘Extremely overwhelmed’: apartment renters face rising tide of fees

Guardian investigation: Renters at apartment buildings operated by industry giant Greystar complain they’re deluged by ‘unfair’ and ‘inflated’ fees. The company denies these claims

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Playing it Safe? The Effect of Abortion Bans on Sexual Behavior

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

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Wages are up, but still being outpaced by inflation

With the consumer price index running at 3.8% — and expected to rise further when new data drops Wednesday — purchasing power is eroding.

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Why Are Birthrates Down? Two New Studies Point to Phones.

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Middlebury Announces 2025 Virtue Award Winners

Staff and faculty are recognized for their positive impact on Middlebury students.

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Meg Simon Announced as Hockey Humanitarian Award Recipient - Middlebury College

Middlebury women's ice hockey forward Meg Simon was named the 2026 recipient of the prestigious Hockey Humanitarian Award on Friday evening in Las Vegas in conjunction

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The history that moves us: Colonial duration, era of occupation, and migration

Colonialism has important effects for former colonies, and despite the long colonial history between Europe and Africa, the nuances of the impacts of that history are relatively understudied. The c...

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A one way ticket to gig?

We propose a search and matching model to explore the labor market implications of a growing gig economy. The economy has conventional and gig sectors…

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When the party line changes: state media, immigration, and public opinion in Russia

We document and assess the effect of a short-lived campaign on Russian state television to re-orient coverage of immigrants. Building on prior research – including a historical narrative and eviden...

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At one elite college, over 80% of students now use AI – but it’s not all about outsourcing their work

Survey shows students rapidly picked up chatbots, but perhaps surprisingly, they more often used it to augment their learning, rather than hand work off.

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Abortion and Economic Policy, Part III: How Dobbs Rewrote the Economics of Reproductive Health, with a 275-Mile Price Tag

In the three years since Dobbs, much has changed. Professor Caitlin Myers joined us again to discuss how she collects data on abortion and economics, and what that data shows us about the new normal f...

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A more joyous life Economist Will Pyle explains new research that shows satisfaction and economic optimism rising among Russians since the invasion of Ukraine — Meduza

Despite massive military spending, tens of thousands of deaths, and a vast array of international sanctions, Russians’ sense of stability and life satisfaction has reached its highest level in the pas...

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Board of Trustees Approves Fiscal Year 2026 Budget, Tenure

Trustees endorsed a $344 million budget, amended the core retirement plan, and reaffirmed their commitment to institutional autonomy and board independence.

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Coming this week: April's PCE and a clearer picture of U.S. GDP in the first quarter

They’re backward-looking indicators, but economists can’t know where we are unless they know where we’ve been.

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The lasting effects of fires on local labor markets - Marketplace

Large fires can impact the job market of a local community for up to three years after the event, said Raphaelle Gauvin-Coulombe.

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Governing the Satellites that Orbit Earth, with Akhil Rao

Akhil Rao discusses the accumulation of satellites and debris in Earth’s orbit and the governance of layers in the Earth’s orbit.

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The Long-Run Effects of California's Paid Family Leave Act on Women's Careers and Childbearing: New Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design and US Tax Data

(February 2025) - We use administrative tax data to analyze the cumulative, long-run effects of California's 2004 Paid Family Leave Act (CPFL) on women's employment, earnings, and childbearing. A regression-discontinuity design exploits the sharp increase in the weeks of paid leave available under the law. We find no evidence that CPFL increased employment, boosted earnings, or encouraged childbearing, suggesting that CPFL had little effect on the gender pay gap or child penalty. For first-time mothers, we find that CPFL reduced employment and earnings a decade after they gave birth.

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Economic Toll of Los Angeles Fires Goes Far Beyond Destroyed Homes

The ongoing disaster will affect residents’ health, local industries, public budgets and the cost of housing for years to come.

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Economics Seminar: Amanda Gregg, "Shareholder Democracy under Autocracy: Voting Rights and Corporate Performance in Imperial Russia"

Join us foran exciting seminar by Amanda Gregg, an Associate Professor of Economics at Middlebury College!

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Job churn is up, but only in some parts of the U.S. - Marketplace

It's a signal that the labor market is normalizing, said Kristina Sargent, an economics professor at Middlebury College.

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A behaviorally validated warm glow questionnaire - Journal of the Economic Science Association

Measuring the social preferences of economic agents using experiments has become common place. This process, while incentive compatible, is costly and time consuming, making it infeasible in many sett...

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