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Weekly papers released by February 2, 2026

• Well-being Increases in Age Among Workers: Evidence From 103 Countries
  David G. Blanchflower and Alex Bryson #34786 (LS)
  
• Trade and US Inequality in the Tokyo Round
  Andrew Greenland, James Lake, and John Lopresti #34785 (EFG)
  
• Changing Culture and Norms in Developing Countries
  Eliana La Ferrara and David H. Yanagizawa-Drott #34784 (DEV, POL)
  
• Banking on Inattention
  Xu Lu and Lingxuan Wu #34783 (CF, EFG)
  
• Managers and the Cultural Transmission of Gender Norms
  Virginia Minni, Kieu-Trang Nguyen, Heather Sarsons, and Carla Srebot #34782 (LS)
  
• Enhancing Worker Productivity Without Automating Tasks: A Different Approach to AI and the Task-Based Model
  Ajay K. Agrawal, John McHale, and Alexander Oettl #34781 (LS, PR)
  
• Optimal Use of Preferences in Artificial Intelligence Algorithms
  Joshua S. Gans #34780 (PR)
  
• A.I. and Our Economic Future
  Charles I. Jones #34779 (EFG)
  
• The Effect of Charter Schools on Identification, Service Provision, and Achievement of Students with Disabilities
  Scott A. Imberman and Andrew S. Johnson #34778 (ED)
  
• AI and the Quantity and Quality of Creative Products: Have LLMs Boosted Creation of Valuable Books?
  Imke Reimers and Joel Waldfogel #34777 (IO, PR)
  
• Audit Centralization and Audit Quality: Evidence from Chinese Cities
  Jian Chu, Raymond Fisman, Yongxiang Wang, and Maoliang Ye #34776 (DEV, PE)
  
• Immigration Restrictions and Natives' Intergenerational Mobility: Evidence from the 1920s US Quota Acts
  James J. Feigenbaum, Yi-Ju Hung, Marco Tabellini, and Monia Tomasella #34775 (DAE, LS, PE)
  
• Estimating Demand Systems with Bidding Data
  Jason Allen, Jakub Kastl, and Milena Wittwer #34774 (AP, IO)
  
• How do Foundations Help Charities (Beyond Giving them Money)?
  Daniel M. Hungerman, Teresa Harrison, and Sherry X. Li #34773 (PE)
  
• Stress Relief? Externalities from Specialty Hospital Entry
  Daniel R. Arnold, Michael R. Richards, and Christopher M. Whaley #34772 (EH)
  
• Dynamic Selection and the Puzzle of Slow Climate Change Adaptation in U.S. Agriculture
  Robert Huang and Matthew E. Kahn #34771 (EEE, PR)
  
• The Life-cycle of Concentrated Industries
  Martin Beraja and Francisco J. Buera #34770 (EFG, IO, PR)
  
• Why Does Height Pay? Evidence from the Kenya Life Panel Survey
  Wilson King, Edward Miguel, and Michael W. Walker #34769 (DEV, EH, LS)
  
• Welfare Added? Optimal Teacher Assignment with Value-Added Measures
  Tanner S. Eastmond, Michael Ricks, Julian Betts, and Nathan Mather #34768 (ED, LS, PE)
  
• Life-Cycle Effects of Women's Education on their Careers and Children
  Na'ama Shenhav and Danielle H. Sandler #34767 (CH, ED, EH, LS, PE)
  
• Competition, Procurement and Learning-By-Doing in the Space Launch Industry
  Ruibing Su, Chenyu Yang, and Andrew Sweeting #34766 (IO)
  
• The Future of Monetarism after Milton Friedman
  Michael D. Bordo #34765 (ME)
  
• Driving Innovation: The Policy Tools Powering Electric Vehicle Technological Inventions
  Jingni Zhang and David Popp #34763 (EEE, PR)
  
• The Macroeconomic Effects of Climate Policy Uncertainty
  Konstantinos Gavriilidis, Diego R. Känzig, Ramya Raghavan, and James H. Stock #34762 (EEE, EFG)
  
• Clientelism: How It Works, Why It Persists and How to Break It
  Jimmy Graham, Horacio Larreguy, and Pablo Querubín #34761 (POL)
  
• Mapping Technological Trajectories: Evidence from Two Centuries of Patent Data
  Antonin Bergeaud, Ruveyda Nur Gozen, and John Van Reenen #34760 (PR)
  
• Poverty and Dependency in the United States, 1939–2023
  Richard V. Burkhauser and Kevin Corinth #34759 (PE)
  
• The Redistributive Effects of Federal Medicaid Outlays Across Counties: Evidence from the ACA
  Laura Montenovo, Kosali I. Simon, and Coady Wing #34758 (EH, PE)
  
• What Happens When Dating Goes Online? Evidence from U.S. Marriage Markets and Health Outcomes
  Daniel Ershov, Jessica Fong, and Pinar Yildirim #34757 (IO, PR)
  
• Wedges: A Microeconomic Perspective on Misallocation
  Lauren F. Bergquist, Danial Lashkari, and Eric Verhoogen #34756 (DEV, EFG)
  
• Learning to Quit? A Multi-Year, Multi-Site Field Experiment with Innovation-Driven Entrepreneurs
  Esther Bailey, Daniel Fehder, Eric Floyd, Yael Hochberg, and Daniel J. Lee #34755 (CF, PR)
  
• The Macroeconomic Effects of Neighborhood Policies: a Dynamic Analysis
  Alessandra Fogli, Veronica Guerrieri, Mark Ponder, and Marta Prato #34754 (EFG)
  
• Is the Environmental Exposure Gap Shrinking? Evidence from an Extreme Multi-exposure Index
  Glenn Sheriff, Danae Hernandez-Cortes, TC Chakraborty, and Theresa DeConcini #34739 (EEE)
  
• Creating High-Opportunity Neighborhoods: Evidence from the HOPE VI Program
  Raj Chetty, Rebecca Diamond, Thomas B. Foster, Lawrence F. Katz, Sonya Porter, Matthew Staiger, and Laura Tach #34720 (CH, ED, LS, PE)
  

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