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New Columbia Business School study shows that expansion of rent control and traditional housing policies leads to greater access to affordable housing and increases well-being.

Professor Andrea Prat and colleagues study the information flows that arise among a set of agents with local knowledge and directed payoff interactions. 

Using a unique dataset from Denmark, Professor Daniel Wolfenzon and colleagues find that CEO and family deaths are strongly correlated with declines in firm operating profitability, investment and sales growth.

Entrepreneurship in the United States continues to be a major path to wealth creation for individuals and their families.

Although the gender wage gap in the U.S. has narrowed, women’s career trajectories diverge from men’s after the birth of children, suggesting a potential role for family-friendly policies.

This paper provides evidence on the impact of paid leave legislation on fathers’ leave-taking, as well as on the division of leave between mothers and fathers in dual-earner households.

Professor Michaela Pagel and colleague document how a spouse who spends more of his or her share of income increases overall household spending.