Tito Boeri was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant to study the conditions that limit workers' job mobility, leading to a monopsony situation with negative effects on wages and working conditions

One out of 1,400 US veterans who are prescribed opioids at an emergency room will eventually die of overdose. Two papers by Sarah Eichmeyer and Jonathan Zhang assess the risks of becoming an addict and worse.

A paper by Cedric Gutierrez and others looks at how entrepreneurs value costs and benefits of investing their time, with seemingly counterintuitive results

Stefano Rossi proves that municipal bankruptcy law lowers bond spreads by 8.5 basis points and increases hospital investments by 24.5%. Political opposition and judicial inefficiency are among the reasons that prevent its universal ratification

Viktoriia Lapa and Paola Mariani report on a BLEST workshop

Women who often have a great financial need to form a new union with a second earner are also the least likely to achieve that, according to an analysis of the US by Nicoletta Balbo and Alessandro Di Nallo