This paper estimates the impact of increased rainfall on traffic accident fatalities. This focus is motivated by two factors. First, in OECD countries, road traffic crashes are the leading cause of death for people aged 15-24. Second, the social welfare cost of traffic deaths is largely ignored in GDP calculations. If rainfall significantly affects traffic...

Forty percent of households who said that they received the payment reported having spent it. Forty percent of households who said that they received the payment reported having spent it - approximately twice the spending rate recorded in surveys assessing the 2001 and 2008 tax rebates in the US, according to this report. Using an...

Using a dataset covering over 10,000 Australian primary school teachers and over 90,000 pupils, Leigh estimates how effective teachers are in raising students’ test scores from one exam to the next.

The release of the government’s security law proposals reveals that the Coalition’s approach still casts a long shadow, writes Andrew Leigh.

Outside the United States, very little is known about long-run trends in school productivity. This paper presents new evidence using two data series from Australia, where comparable tests are available back to the 1960s.