Research Highlights

Meta could be forced to sell Instagram if a court rules it’s an illegal monopoly. New Stanford research into likely advertising effects suggests a split wouldn’t be good for users.

New research by SIEPR’s Grant Miller reveals a 19th-century federal program that gave Native Americans land and citizenship had devastating consequences.

Research by SIEPR Senior Fellow Bård Harstad warns policymakers of a dilemma: As countries turn to natural gas, investments in renewable energy end up taking a hit.

New research from SIEPR’s Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato explores what happens when U.S. multinationals shift costs from lower-tax countries back to the U.S. to reduce their taxes.

The Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and MIT have developed a tool that makes it easier for journalists, policymakers and others to spot trends in the U.S. economy.

New research by SIEPR Senior Fellow Thomas Dee finds a 22 percent jump in student absences in California school districts facing intensified immigration enforcement.

New research by SIEPR’s Annamaria Lusardi shows the promising benefit of an online tool to improve adults’ financial knowledge by teaching the basics via two-minute stories.

The U.S. isn’t moving fast enough to meet demand for necessities like energy and housing. A recent SIEPR Policy Forum examined how the ‘abundance’ movement aims to fix that.

New research by SIEPR Faculty Fellow Adrienne Sabety shows increased hospitalizations, staff turnover, and higher use of physical restraints.

SIEPR’s Antonio Coppola and Matteo Maggiori leverage AI to develop a way of measuring how companies are reacting to President Trump’s tariffs and other forms of economic pressure.

The dollar is typically a refuge in moments of uncertainty. SIEPR senior fellows Arvind Krishnamurthy and Hanno Lustig say this time is different.

A SIEPR Policy Forum examined how government, business and academia can best address the rising economic costs of wildfires.

Uncertainty about how to fix a faltering home insurance market was one of several findings from the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research’s survey of California consumers

Working from home is a big hit in English-speaking countries. But not so much in Asia, according to a new global survey of employees.

As the Supreme Court mulls a health policy ruling, research by SIEPR predoc Michelle Bronsard and Faculty Fellow Adrienne Sabety indicates the scope of people who'd be affected.

New research from SIEPR’s Neale Mahoney measures the huge surge in health care jobs and sets the stage for more on why patterns and policies are panning out as expected, or not.

New research from Stanford economist Petra Persson is one of the first to examine the economic toll of menopause, which affects one-fifth of the nation’s workforce.

SIEPR Senior Fellow David Lobell examines how U.S. agriculture productivity has been declining amid impacts of climate change and estimates the public R&D needed to reverse course.