Highlighted Publications




 

Amuedo-Dorantes and Wang (2026) examined whether the economic and social benefits of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program persisted after the Trump administration’s 2017 effort to end the program created prolonged policy uncertainty. They analyzed 2008–2022 American Community Survey data (excluding 2020) using difference-in-differences and event-study methods to compare DACA-eligible and ineligible undocumented immigrants. They found that early labor mark

Feigenberg and Miller (2025) examine whether police officers discriminate against low-income motorists during traffic stops and searches. They analyze more than 11 million traffic stops conducted by the Texas Highway Patrol between 2009 and 2015, linking motorists to measures of household income and vehicle status. They find large class disparities in policing. Motorists in the bottom income quintile were searched in 2.5% of stops, compared with 1.1% for those in the top quin

Bor et al. (2026) examined which causes of death account for the large number of excess deaths in the United States compared with 17 other high-income countries between 1999 and 2022. They analyzed more than 63.5 million U.S. deaths using mortality data from the World Health Organization Mortality Database. They found that the United States experienced about 12.7 million excess deaths during the study period, rising from 346,166 in 1999 to 905,159 in 2022. In 2022, circulator

Mayer, Méjean, and Thoenig (2026) examined whether credible threats of economic sanctions can deter war, using the Russia–Ukraine conflict as a case study. They combined international trade data from 1995–2021 with a quantitative model linking trade, diplomacy, and the probability of armed conflict. Their analysis found that Ukraine’s reduced economic dependence on Russia after 2014 lowered the economic costs of war and increased the predicted risk of conflict by more than 5