Does inflation vary across the income distribution? This article reviews the growing literature
on inflation inequality, describing recent advances and opportunities for further research in …

The past decade or so has seen a dramatic change in the way that economists can learn by
watching our planet from above. A revolution has taken place in remote sensing and allied …

Perceptions of Africa have changed dramatically. Viewed as a continent of wars, famines
and entrenched poverty in the late 1990s, there is now a focus on “Africa rising†? and an …

This paper surveys the experience of economic growth in the 20th century with a focus on
technological change at the frontier together with issues related to success and failure in …

We study the competitive forces which shaped ideological diversity in the US press in the
early twentieth century. We find that households preferred like-minded news and that …

Pharmaceuticals have greatly improved health in developing countries, but many people in
developing countries do not obtain even inexpensive pharmaceuticals and little …

The COVID-19 pandemic led to stark reductions in economic activity in India. We employ
CMIE's Consumer Pyramids Household Survey to examine the timing, distribution, and …

abstract Four sources of bias in the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) have been identified. The
most discussed is substitution bias, which creates a second order bias in the CPI. Three …

The work cited by the Nobel committee spans many years, covers areas of economics that
are not always grouped together, and involves many different collaborators. Yet, like the …

We use a randomized design to analyze the effects of unconditional cash transfers to
women on the food Engel curve. After the intervention, households assigned to the …